Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 14-minute talk, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers instruction on visualizing vast offerings to accumulate immense merit. He teaches that when making symbolic offerings—whether you’re physically present or not—you should visualize them multiplying to fill the entire sky, with countless goddesses making offerings alongside you. By doing this visualization, you collect vastly greater merit than from physical offerings alone. He draws on the example of Brahma and Indra offering golden dharma wheels to Buddha as a request to turn the dharma wheel, showing that visualization of generosity has profound power. This practice transforms ordinary offerings into vast acts of giving, making every practice meaningful and your life purposeful.
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File: 07 2005 04 12 LLP2.mp3
Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Malaysia (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-04-12
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~375
So here. So here I would like to mention So when we make this all the symbolic offerings, all these for different purposes. So it’s good to visualize, even though you’re not actually there standing offering, but everybody can visualize our offering, fill the whole sky. Each often, know, fill the whole sky and you then you are often so this way, you collect how many visualize, how vast you collect the matter merit, most instance merit. So like that so from my side, and then also, see me by thinking, it’s on the Dalai Lama, gurus in my heart, and then I’m offering to Dean.
So long like Puja, to Dean. So normally, same we practice seven limbs, everyday like when we do the offering throne or offering the dharmachara. We visualize Nameless One Self and making offering throne, dharmachara like that. As I mentioned, liberation palm, because when Brahma, Indra Brahma, you see, requested offered the thousand small golden dharmachala to Buddha, requested to turn Dharma wheel. So visualizing oneself with Brahma and nonetheless, you see, often dharmacara are requesting to so that when we do practice of offerings, we visualize, you see, numberless goddesses fill the whole sky and make an offering like that.
So here, similar, even though whether you are standing in the line or offering or you’re not, how you visualize each offering nonetheless. You fill the whole sky and even your offering. So you collect you collect and consequent most since merit. So that from my side, you see, by offering to the long appusa to the gurus by thinking in the heart is only Dalai Lama, and then other gurus, so I don’t often redeem. So this way we all create, say, extensive merit and make the life meaningful.