Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 76-minute ceremony at Buddha House, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s disciples perform a long life puja—a ritual request for their teacher to live long and continue his work. Disciples open with prostrations and formal praises of Lama Zopa’s qualities: his dedication to helping all beings, his tireless global travels, his patience in listening to people’s suffering. They request his long life for continued guidance through this life and all future lives until enlightenment. Lama Zopa responds with a teaching on the power of collective merit generated through the puja, emphasizing the importance of precise dedication so the merit is not destroyed by anger, doubt, or negative emotion. Addressed to his established disciples and the FBMC community.
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File: 2005 05 02 5 HK Long Life Puja 5.mp3
Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Long life puja hong kong 22 may (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-05-02
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~368
Most precious holy guru, the embodiment of Buddhists and bodhisattvas of ten directions inseparable from Lord Vajradhāra. We all present here representing the entire FBMC organization, and all your disciples prostrate to your holy feet and make request. Out of inconceivable infirmity, you assume to the full responsibility of helping all certain beings on this planet without exception. Out of unrivaled kindness, you forsake your own time, works tirelessly for the benefit and happiness of all mothers and teen beings like no other dharma practitioners can. Out of unrequited compassion, you cultivate unbelievable patience to sit motionlessly to listen to people’s stories of wars and suffering for hours on ends.
Out of a matched seat and joy, you travel around the globe almost tirelessly to help certain beings in ten directions achieve courses for high rebirths, liberation, and enlightenment. Please, please live long to continue to guide us in this life and all the future lives until we attain the same state as yourself. My becoming a projectile after many, many years. So, anyway, I tried I say, right, this is what I can benefit the same thing as I mentioned in the beginning. So thank you very much.
So that’s all. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you. So since we since we put a lot of effort, performing the long life puja. So collected collected so much merit. So therefore, at the end, we should do dedication very precisely so that it doesn’t get destroyed by rising heresy, anger, by rising this negative emotion cause. That’s what the maybe won’t be destroyed.
So it’s very important.