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About this talk. In this 64-minute guided practice session, Lama Zopa Rinpoche leads practitioners through guru devotion and bodhicitta—an aspiration to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The session opens with guru devotion using nine attitudes, where practitioners visualize their teacher as the embodiment of all Buddhas manifesting in ordinary form to guide beings trapped in saṃsāra. Rinpoche then guides the sevenfold cause-and-effect instruction to develop compassion, moving through prayers that cultivate love for all sentient beings as former mothers and the resolve to place others’ welfare above one’s own. He emphasizes how guru devotion and bodhicitta mutually strengthen each other. The practice includes tong-len meditation—exchanging oneself with others—and extensive dedications. Suited for serious practitioners already familiar with Mahāyāna Buddhist practice.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2004-04-25
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 63.8 minutes
Words: ~5,238
So Rinpoche has said to complete the Lamrim prayer for the Namrata vajraya, and then have a break, and then he will come down around six. So in the Namah Chakra Yogurtu, we’re now on page seventy six, practicing Guru devotion with the nine attitudes. So before we start that, we’ll do the short call in the Guru from afar in the Lamrim section of volume one, page thirteen. Emphasis or settling the mind, but do non round breathing. Visualize in front of your head, your root guru.
When comes this, all the Buddhas think, all the Buddhas manifested this form in order to guide me. All the Buddhas manifested this ordinary form to my ordinary mind. This mistaken form to my mistaken mind to save me from the lower realms, from all of saṃsāra, and from all the defilements, and to bring me to full enlightenment. Lama, think of me. Lama, think of me.
Lama, think of me. Magnificently glorious guru, dispelling the darkness, ignorance. Magnificently glorious guru, revealing the path of liberation. Magnificently glorious guru, liberating from the waters of saṃsāra. Magnificently glorious guru, eliminating disease of five poisons.
Magnificently glorious guru, who is the wish granting jewel? I beseech you, please grant me blessings. Magnificently glorious guru, please grant me blessings to remember impermanence and death from my heart. Magnificent need, glorious go. Please grant me blessings to generate the thought of no need in my mind.
Magnificently glorious guru, please ask me to abide when pointedly practiced in isolated places. Magnificently glorious guru, please bless me to not have any hindrances to my practice. Magnificent knee, glorious guru, please bless me so that all bad conditions appear as a support. Magnificent ego, ice guru. Please bless me to accomplish effortlessly towards the self and others.
Magnificent ego is good. Please pass me soon, very soon. Please grant me blessings on this very cushion. Please grant me blessings in this first session. Man, otherwise, here is he even forsaken the actions of Gurus Gurus Gurus For regard what if actions are done as pure?
With this devotion, may I see blessings from Guru in my heart. Magnificent and precious from Guru, please abide on the lotus and moon seed of my heart. Guide me with your great kindness, and grant me the realizations of your holy body, speech, and mind. Regulate Vishnathisham right field in front, seated on the lion throne in the center of wish granting tree, arising from an ocean of milk in the most pure environment. To his right and left and behind the lineage lamas, in front, one’s guru in ordinary form surrounded by all those gurus with whom one’s made Dharma contact.
And down below in rows, the deities of four classes, the tantra, the Buddha’s Nenmanaka aspects, bodhisattvas, Prateka Buddha’s art, dakas nikinas, dhammapratetas. And around the edge, the four guardian kings surrounded by the entourage. The entire merit field is a manifestation of the dharmakaya holy mind of all the Buddhas, transcendental wisdom, non dual bliss and voidness. The absolute guru bound by infinite compassion, manifesting infinite forms to guide me and all sentient beings exactly according to our level of perception, the purity of our minds, to guide us from suffering, to happiness, to liberation, to enlightenment. The whole matte field is a manifestation of one’s own root guru.
One’s own root guru is the entire merit field. Surrounding us, all sentient beings, and we lead them with a devotional mind, making requests to see the blessings and transform our minds into realizations, the stages of the path. I’m requesting the kind Lord Rukuru, who is more extraordinary than all Buddhas. Please bless me to be able to devote myself to qualified Lord Guru with great respect in all my future lifetimes. By realizing that correctly devoting myself to the kind Lord Guru, whose foundation for all good qualities is the root of happiness and goodness, I should devote myself to him with great respect, nor forsaking him even at the cost of my life.
Thinking of the importance of qualifying Guru, may I allow myself to enter under his control? May I be like an obedient child, acting exactly in accordance with the guru’s advice? Even when Mara’s evil friends and the like try to spit me from the guru, may I be like a virgin inseparable forever? When the guru gives me work, whatever the burden, may I be like the earth carrying all? When I devote myself to the guru, whatever suffering occurs might be like a mountain immovable.
Even if I have to perform all the unpleasant tasks, may I be like a servant of the king with a mind undisturbed? May I abandon pride, holding myself low as in the guru, may I be like a sweeper. May I be like a rope, joyfully holding the guru’s work no matter how difficult or heavy a burden. Even when the guru criticizes, provokes, ignores me, may I be like a dog without anger, never responding with anger? May I be like a ferryboat, never upset at any time to come and go for the guru?
All glorious and precious root guru, please bless me to be able to practice in this way from now on in all my future lifetimes. May I be able to devote myself to the guru in this way? Realizing how this body of liberty is endowments is found but once difficult to obtain, easily lost. I seek your blessings, partake of its essence, make it worthwhile, and not be distracted by the meaningless affairs of this life. Aghast at the searing blaze of suffering in the lower realms, I take heartfelt refuge and the three precious gems and seek your blessings, and I am eagerly endeavored to practice various means for abandoning what is bound to misfortune and accumulating virtuous deeds.
Varlently tossed in his ways, delusion, and karma, played by whores of woolly denizens, three kinds of suffering. As Sikh of masses develop an intense longing to be free from this monstrous ocean of boundless and vicious existence. Having abandoned the mind, abused, unbearable prison of cyclic existence as Pleasure Grove, I seek your blessings, partake the treasure of Aria’s jewels by practicing the three high trainings, and thereby to uphold liberation’s banner. Having considered how all these pitiful beings have been my mothers and have raised me in kindness again and again, I seek your blessings, develop and authentic compassion, like that of a loving mother for a precious child. So here, mandating on the six the one called the sevenfold cause and effect instruction.
So try to generate bodhicitta, this ever thought thought, bodhicitta, and hold that. As Rinpochen mentioned before in the teachings, Or we have bodhicitta that will increase our devotion to the guru. And as we increase our devotion to the guru, that will increase our bodhicitta. So they help each other. There is no difference between myself and others.
None of us wishes even the silence of sufferings or is ever content with the happiness we have. Realizing this, seek of blessings that I may enhance the bliss and joy of others. This chronic disease of cherishing myself, this cause giving rise to my own soul suffering. Perceiving this, I seek up rising, splaying, grudge and destroying monstrous demon and selfishness. The mind that cherishes all mother beings must secure them and bless is a gateway leading to infinite virtue.
Seeing this, I seek a blessing to cherish these beings more than my life, even should they rise up as my enemies. In brief, infantile beings, they were only for their own ends. While Buddhas work solely for the welfare of others, with the mind understand distinctions between the failings of one, they advance to the other. I seek your blessings and enable me to equalize and exchange myself with others. Since cherishing myself stole it all torment, or cherishing my mother’s foundation of all that is good, I seek her blessings to make my core practice yoga exchange itself for others.
Page eighty five. When my teacher, the Buddha, the endowed, the son of Jura, whose prince liberated from all in the path of mighty courage, he gave away his son, daughter, and the kingship. In the same way, may I be able to give without clinging my surroundings and possessions that are so dear to me. When he was born as king, great and powerful compassion, he fed the tigress with his own flesh. In the same way, may I be able to give with joy this cherished illusory body to the host of flesh eaters.
When he was prince, mighty love, he fed the ashes with his own blood. In the same way, may I be able to give with compassion the warm blood of my heart, so difficult to part with than blood drinkers. When he was a son of a merchant irrigating with water, he liberated fish by reciting the names of those that has come. In the same way, may I be able to practice giving holy Dharma to all beings, the destitute of Dharma. When he was prince with meaning of virtue, he was able to bear betrayal with compassion.
In the same way, I might cherish with great compassion those around me who disturb with bad manners and perverse behavior. When you as a body slam for monkey, you rescued evil man from the world. In the same way, may I be able to benefit evil beings without discouragement and compassionately guide them without expecting favors in return. Alas, there is no one who has not been my mother and father. There is not a moment of pure happiness in saṃsāra.
Therefore, may I be able to lead all my mothers, including the gods and demons, who appear and exist in the realms of saṃsāra. May I always have love for those spirits who are still here and who dwell on the earth or in the sky, as well as for all beings who take birth and die. May they all enjoy the dharma day and night. By this merit, maintain this state of seeing all existence, and may I subdue the enemy of the delusions. May I liberate and transmigrate us in the ocean of saṃsāra with its turbulent waves of old age, sickness, and death.
And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings of all coming deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings. May without exception ripen upon me right now, that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in bless. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings that all commit deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings. May without exception ripen upon me right now, that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in bliss. And thus, venerable, compassionate grows.
I seek of blessings that all commit deaths, obstacles, and sufferings from other beings. May without exception ripen upon me right now, that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, thereby invest all beings in best. Should even my environment and the beings therein be filled with the fruits and negative actions and non wishful sufferings pour down on me like rain. I seek blessings to take these miserable conditions as a path by seeing them as cause to exhaust results, my negative karma. In short, no matter what appearances arise, be they good or bad, I seek of blessings, transform them to parts of enhancing to bodhicittas.
So the practice of five forces contestants the entire Dharma, and thus to enjoy solely a blissful mind. Whatever I occasion to meet, I seek of blessings, I may adapt it to my meditation by skillful means of four applications. May I render this life of liberties and endowments infinitely meaningful by practicing the advice, equipments, and thought training. In order to rescue all beings and the vast seas of existence, I seek your blessings to become adept in bodhicittas through a pure selfless wish, as well as by love and compassion conjoined with a visual technique amounting giving and taking upon the breath. I seek your blessings that I may eagerly endeavor to put into practice the three Mayanamal codes, and to restrain my mind stream with pure bodhisattva vows, the single path journey but all victorious one to three times.
I seek your blessings to complete perfection and generosity through the guideline teaching enhancing the mind that gives without attachment. Namely, transforming my body, wealth, and collection of virtues over three times to objects desire for each and every sentient being. I seek your blessings to complete perfection and moral discipline, working for the sake of sentient beings and acting virtuous deeds, and not transgressing the vows of pranamoxya, bodhicitta, tantric vows, even at the cost of my life. Should even the mirror of beings, the three rounds without exception become angry at me, humiliate, criticize, threaten, or even kill me, I seek a blessing to complete perfection of patience not to be distraught, but to work for their benefit in response to their harm. Even if I must remain for an ocean of alms and the fire hells of each other, for the sake of even just one sentient being, I seek her blessings, complete perfection, joy, effort.
Strive her compassion, supreme enlightenment, and not be discouraged. Having abandoned the force of Dharma, agitation, mental wandering, I seek of blessings, complete perfection, and meditative concentration through a samadhi of single point of placement from the nature of reality, which is all things of our eternal existence. I seek your blessings, complete perfection of wisdom, through the space I’m geared with single-minded placement upon ultimate truth, enjoying with the tranquility and great bliss induced by discriminating wisdom and lies and suchness. I seek of lesses, perfects, and milder and illusion, by realizing how an outer and inner phenomena like true existence would still appear, like a mirage of dream on the moon’s image and a still ache, saṃsāra nirvana like even an atom of true existence, What cause and effect and the pendant arising are infallible. I seek a blessing to certain import and Nāgārjuna’s thought, that these two are complementary and contradictory.
Thereupon, I seek a blessing and I may cross the ocean of tantra through the kindness of my navigator, vajradhara, beholding my vows and words of honor the roots of all powerful attainments more dear than my life. I seek your blessings to cleanse all stains ordinary appearance and grasping Through the first day joke of transforming birth, death, and the bardo into three bodies of Buddha, so whatever appears may arise as deity. I seek your blessings to ancienize this life path of unity, of clear light in the illusory body that arises from placing your feet, my protector. In the eight petals, my heart, the very center of my central channel. The risen room sheikh was late.
He was planning to come down, but then he got a message of somebody who had died, so he’s doing prayers for that person. So this is the mother of one of the Chenrezig nuns, Serang. So her name is Ruth Wilson. So we’ll recite this Bodh Prayer three times, replacing I with we. Should we not have completed the points, the path, the time of death, we seek your blessings that we may be led to pure land, either through the instructions applying the five forces or by the forceful means to enlightenment the Guru’s transference of mind.
Should we not have completed the points of the path of time of death, we seek your blessings that we may be led to pure land, either through the instructions applying the five forces or by the forceful means to enlightenment the Guru’s transference of mind. Should we not have completed the points of the path at the time of death, we seek our blessings that we may be led to a pure land, either through the instructions applying the five forces or by the false means to enlightenment of Guru’s transference of mind. In short, I seek your blessings, my savior to be cared for by you from birth and remitting me throughout all my lives, and thus to become a chief disciple holding every secret of your body, speech, and mind. Savior, please grant all of your auspicious to me to be foremost amongst your very first circle of disciples wherever you manifest Buddhahood, so that all my temper and outer wishes without exception may be effortless and spontaneously fulfilled. Merritt Field gradually absorbs into lungos into Vandodhi Chum.
Absorbs in the Sri Lanka Vipurtha, the heart, Thabong Doja Cham. And Lama Thabong Doja Cham comes the crown of one’s head, and we make the following heartfelt quests. The very exhorted four bodies, lama, supreme deity, to the mighty one vajradhara, make request. The very exhorted dharmakaya, free from obscuration, supreme lama. To the mighty one, vajradhara, Meccaust.
The very great bliss, exhorted enjoyment body, supreme lama. To the mighty one, vajradhara, Meccaust. The very multitude of supreme emanation body, supreme lama. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The embodiment of all lamas, sama, supreme deity.
To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The embodiment of all Yidams, Zama, supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all Buddhas, Zama, supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request.
The embodiment of all Sangha, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all dakas and bikinis, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The embodiment of all Dharma protectors, Sama has been deity.
To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The embodiment of all objects of refuge, Sama has been deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The founder, Bhagawan, Thagadhara, perfectly completed Buddha, glorious conquerors, Yakumani Buddha, I prostrate, make offerings, and give refuge. Thayata om mane mane mahamana and so on.
Having thus been entreated supreme gurus, I grant this request so that you may bless me happily enlighten the crown of my head. And once again, set your radiant feet firmly in the crown of my lotus heart. Whatever my virtues, I’m thus created and dedicated its cause, enabling me to uphold Harendra, scriptures and insights. Fulfill without exception of prayers and deeds when Buddhas and Buddhas suffered three times. Jude all three time rest, communed by myself, all the Buddha’s and bodhisattvas and by all sentient beings.
May I myself and family members or members of this organization and all sentient beings, never be pardoned in all our lives from Mayanas for our seers. We reach the end of our journey and on the path of renunciation, bodhicitta, pure view in the two stages. Through the essence of whatever white virtues there are in saṃsāra nirvana, may all be auspicious to me to be free here and now from all misfortune hardship. And thus, enjoy glorious and perfect celestial treasure of temple and ultimate person in God. May all be auspicious for the Buddha’s teachings to endure long through your centers of Dharma, omniscient, arsentrapha, being filled with hosts, renuncius, yogas, and yoginis driving single pointedly to master street circles.
Having requested your blessings of Zandra Prabhu from the time your youth may request the supreme guru deity. May all be especially for you, loves and bhajadhara spontaneously, and the wishes of others. May all those fishes throw my desire down to swell like a lake in summer rain, bringing unbroken flow, rebirth, and leisure in for the families, so that I may pass my days and nights with your holy Dharma, brahna rasa, and thus, the light in the glorious expression. And dedication, press. Choose a man since returns, created by me, Buddhas, by yourself, and all other sentient beings.
Let him bodhicitta cherishing others, letting go of oneself, letting go of the I. To source all the happiness, success myself nor other sentient beings. Be generated within my own mind and the minds all sentient beings that even seconds a day. May that which has already been generated increase. Choose a mass three times, get to find me, Buddha’s, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings.
May all the father, mother, sentient beings of happiness. May three lower realms be empty forever. May all bodhisattvas prayers succeed immediately. May I be able to cause all this to happen by myself alone? Do the man said three times, get it by me, bodhisattvas, bodhisattvas, and all the sentient beings.
For His Holiness, Dalai Lama, Buddha, compassion, all other holy beings, all our virtuous friends of stable lives, may all the holy wishes succeed immediately. Choose the man’s the three times gifted by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all our sentient beings. May I be able to offer sky’s benefit to all sentient beings as Lama Tsongkhapa does by having within me the same qualities Lama Tsongkhapa has from now on in all my future lifetimes. Do you see the merits the three times guided by me, Buddhas, Vadisattvas, all other sentient beings, which are totally non existent from their own side. May the I, which is also totally non existent from its own side.
Achieve Guru Śākyamūni Buddha’s enlightenment, is also totally non existent from its own side. And lead all sentient beings who are totally non existent for its own side. To that enlightenment which is totally non existent for its own side. For myself alone is also totally non existent for its own side. I dedicate all my merits in the way greatly admired by the Buddha’s and bodhisattvas three times and realized by Srimad Bhagavad Mañjuśrī.
May I be able to completely actualize Amr Tsongkhapa’s teaching which unifies Sūtra and Tantra within my mind and spread these teachings to minds all sentient beings. Thus, may Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings flourish forever. Due to all demands the three times gratified me, Buddha’s, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, may whatever I experience, good or bad, suffering or happiness, sickness or health, praise or blame, gain or loss, good reputation or bad reputation, long life or death, even being born in the house, whatever I experience may only be of benefit to sentient beings, which causes all sentient beings to achieve enlightenment by myself alone. Okay. Do you want me to add to that?
No. I’m sorry. So there’s a message yeah. Okay. I’ll let you know.
So there’s a message that at six six ish six ish six ish, Rinpoche will come to do some lambshepa chanting and instruction. And that’s for sangha, but it’s not only for sangha. Anyone can come. Yeah. And that will be followed by teaching and there will be a second bell will be rung before the teaching.
So Rinpoche did say that and she what he wants to do is he wants to give the instructions on the chanting for the namacappa. So he wants everybody to know the chanting. So that would be at six ish. Which is now, right? So should we do an online present and hang out like a dream?
Okay. The gyro or conquering goddess, whose lunar life phase changes, land changing fades. The faintest cooling ray of his mantra name allays five pain about life’s fine land. Rainmaker adept who brings forth life’s rain. Here now grant your greatest gifts.
Victorious goddess grant life without end. Hear our prayer, Alama whom we revere. You bear the name of he who appear to see holes, living essence, the pure paradigmatic doctrine of victors. Of he alone, doorman of the earth. Here guides, blind liberation, sphere of peace.
Precious treasure, precise and subtle reasoning, golden laser light of bright and erring wisdom, clarifying without confusion to truths amongst multiplicity of things. Lama remained mutually amongst us of radiant dharma sun. Skilled in sprinkling the waters of healing, fulfilling needs, benefiting all. A laughing smile being impuls of skill, humility, constancy. A deep milky sea of liquid moon morality.
Lama remained immutably amongst us, one supremely worthy of veneration. The moon of your Mahāyāna mind ring round but a fever calling camp of unsullied unsurpassed resolve. Brilliantly swells the bounds of space, unbound the seas, the happiness and now, and bliss always. Lama remain immutably amongst us, the moon guiding our way. Your teachings are vast spreading rivers of celestial nectars.
Your dialectics and invincible cutting by your weapon. Your writings, thousand petal lotuses unfolding their glory. Now remain in me to be amongst us, a guardian of highest knowledge. By the might of seas, the spiritual masters, deities, and doctrine protectors. By the power of profound and abundant arising, the unferring emptiness of all that appears.
May all the hopes of our prayers with effortless ease be spontaneously fulfilled. So the very last prayer that I do, some people didn’t know, the very last prayer after Rinpoche has finished all the prayers is the short long life prayer, which is on page eleven in long life prayer section. So I can’t announce that. If I announce that, I’ll probably get told not to do it. So so generally, I mean, it often happens when she just won’t accept.
So anyway, this time he’s been accepting for us to do that. So you might want to just mark that if you weren’t clear what I was doing. Enchanting mother like a brilliant snow mountain shining consummation of signs and marks. Who when seeing captivates minds, when heard sees the sorrows of hearts, when recall protects more fears the untimely, giver of life, wish granting will, grant all may be auspicious. Lord of Dharma, in accordance with various suppositions of those to be subdued, makes clear in the light of your well spoken advice, sacred, and tradition.
Essence of Buddhist teachings are foremost in the holy lama. To you, as supreme, we make this prayer supplication. Venable one, to you is kind and succeeds that of all conquerors. For those wonders in far places, especially the west. Mind for your loving concern for us, intentionally descend again to a family of far distant land.
We make this request to Lama. Please, please, if long. Complete holder, skull and protector Stainless Sūtra and Tantra, holy spiritual friend, foundation, unwavering constant devotion, Profoundly skilled in methods, sealing song, unfortunate path of liberation. Unfolding within a soul that is moral, warm, and wise. So Lama, please, please, if not.
Master the entire doctrine of encross the furthermost shore of Vastoshana Sūtra and Tantra. Observing ethics, foundation practice is the higher the teaching, conscientiously following Vinaya. O Lama, please please, if not. By the power of our pure prayer and karma, without ever being separated from our supreme karma, May we joyfully guide as your children disciples throughout infinite lives. And by the sweet and light taste, your holy speech be forever satisfied.
The spiritual masters, yidams, protectors, bless us and helpers may accomplish the meaning of life. In our striving and listening, reflecting and meditating as much as we’re able, that we may quickly usher in a golden age and all the while may always remember from the depths of our hearts loving kindness and precious Actually, wanted to say thank you to everybody again for being so supportive. I really felt that this retreat, everyone is working so hard. And I mean, doesn’t seem like people missing sessions or anything like that. Seems like everyone working really, really hard.
So I know we went a bit lax on the silence. I was I was saying thank you. Thank you. Should I chant it? Thank you.
It makes a huge difference. Also when I did other retreats with Rinpochee was usually deity retreat. And then we’re very very fortunate because when we do deity retreat everyone gets very obsessed with the mantra. So there’s a lot of focus on getting the mantra done. So they were really focused.
I’ve got to get this number of mantra done. I’ve got to do the five puja. And then people get, you know, very uptight if we don’t have enough time for the mantra and we’ve got to do all the sessions. We’ve got to do the mantra. But this retreat, I’m just being incredibly kind because there’s no mantra.
There’s no mantra. So you’ve got nothing to do but the meditation. So feel this just relaxation like we can just you know, the only thing to do it’d be unbearable just to sit here for hours with all this blah blah. You’ve got to do something. So just feel like everyone is really I don’t know.
I just wanted to say thank you very, much. That’s all. I’ve got a few announcements after a few days’ breaks break. Firstly, there’s been people asking about will we be able to get recordings of these teachings. Yes, we’re working on that, and we’re trying to do it so that people can take them home with them when they go on Monday.
So that’s what we’re trying to do. Some people will leave early, so you’ll need to write your names down and make sure that you get them. I can’t tell you what the donation would be for that at the moment, but we’re working on that as well. Secondly, a quite mundane one, tomorrow there’s going to be people, Robin Maher, coming in to change these big flower arrangements on the end. That’s going to take place around about one o’clock.
And that may cause some interruption to people in here doing their practice. We apologize for that but we’ll try and do it in as inobtrusive way as we can or unobtrusive way as we can. Thirdly, John White has got a list which will appear again on the table at the back for people who wish to be in contact and participate in the senior Sangha project IMI and you can talk to John about that and there was another one that I’ve forgotten John? Joe? John’s standing at the back up here.
The table’s over there. There has been a list there, but it’s disappeared. So if someone’s inadvertently picked it up, perhaps you could put it back there. There was one more thing. The long life pooja on the Monday.
What we’re going to we need a meeting with people to talk about that. We want people to take responsibility within it. It’s just over a week away but on Tuesday at two o’clock there’ll be a meeting here and we would like everybody if possible to be present we’ll be talking about what we need to do to prepare the Gompa what we’re going to do in processes and it’s going to be I think a wonderful pooja that people will have an opportunity to participate in preparation for so that’s two o’clock Tuesday thank you very much there are some Wurrong people moving things they told me that you could actually do that Monday if you really wanted to negotiate that with them The Wurrong people perhaps meet with me out here and I’ll explain what they said to me rather than hold everybody else up. So if we meet just outside there I’ll tell you what they said.