Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 31-minute session, Lama Zopa Rinpoche speaks about constructing a long-life Namgyalma stupa in Malaysia and its liberating effects on all sentient beings—insects, animals, and humans alike—through contact with blessed wind, rain, and soil. Merely seeing or hearing of the stupa plants seeds of enlightenment in the mind. The second part of the talk focuses on the dedication of merit, a central Buddhist practice grounded in the Guru Puja. Rinpoche teaches practitioners how to dedicate merits collected by themselves and others toward preserving the Dharma, supporting the four Mahāyāna wheels, and ensuring that all beings never separate from the Mahāyāna path to enlightenment and the attainment of complete Buddhahood.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Malaysia (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-04-12
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 31.2 minutes
Words: ~1,231
They they like me. He give little bit teaching. He give food to them, and he give a little bit teaching to them. So so he told me many years ago, ten thousand people in those areas might vow, you know, to not kill. They vowed from him to not kill ten thousand people.
So this is quite a number of years ago then. This is what he does. Very excellent, you know, wonderful thing. So, anyway, for these lamas, many, you know, he give other teachings, but mainly. With the there’s prostration, there’s there’s there’s all these important things put together.
It’s like, you know, it’s like apple pie. It’s like it’s like it’s like apple pie. Hot hot apple pie with cream on the top. So yum yum. So yum yum yum.
So So by by seeing the life story of this lama, unbelievable. Founder of the tomb monastery, Namdrol Monastery. Where Kushok Lama Kunga, I think, was there did a lot of teachings and, you know, I said, the establish establish the Vinaya practice there to do sojongs and so forth, the compassion practice. Abiding Vinaya, then releasing from that, this Vinaya, he accomplished the historical things and gave many teachings and let one hundred million people reside. People coming from all over village and come to reside.
Om Mani Peme Hum, one hundred million or Om Mani Peme Hum. And people bring food from their own home, put together, then they make food. Like that. The two times already, we didn’t catch a lama for just time. So anyway, so after seeing this lama’s life story, so telling to recently start to give, you know, advice to some people, see, not everybody, but to try one hundred million or one thousand.
So yeah. So I think that’s it. So that all the offering, all the money offerings, would like to offer. So what do we need here? I think that spot is very nice spot for stupa.
And I did Divination. It came out very good. So stupa is long life stupa. So we can dedicate for instance to long life and all other holy beings in this world who have long life who are working for essential things. And all the students, supporters, everyone to have long life.
So we can the stupa is Namgyalma stupa. I didn’t decide yet how many feet. I will tell you that only when you’re relaxed. Stupas and the statues, whatever. So like that, I think that should be so will be magnificent, be glorifying.
It will be another glorifying one. So everybody will come, you know, it brings them to enlightenment, Liberates them from saṃsāra or something like that, all the insects. There are many insects here. So all the flies landing on the stupa, they get purified, you know. Water water rain comes, goes on the ground, or the worms get purified, you know, because the water gets blessed.
Wind touches stupa, contains this powerful mantra. So wind gets blessed, goes away, touches insects, people, they get purified. You see, dust comes on the stupa, goes away, touches other beings, same. Anybody who sees from a distance, from far distance, in the nighttime, purifies their mind, plants seed of enlightenment. So once it is extra large, without effort, it works for the same thing being continuously day and night.
It liberates everyone seeing from very far or close by. There’s no question of women offering prostrate or circumambulating, and those who donate to build the stupa. No no questions for that. That is life toward enlightenment. So I think that’s about it.
Thank you so thank you very much. Thank you. So we decide the Mitrugpa Buddha mantra seven times for success. When Maitreya Buddha’s descent, so that we can be the first disciple of Maitreya and achieving enlightenment at that time. So this dedication which comes in the Guru Puja, this dedication regarded by Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo much more I’ll say, even you did the king of the prayer, but this is not included, which is not contained in that.
This dedication has got a very special dedication. Then the kingdom prayer which includes the ten numberless, hundred thousand Buddhist Samantabhādra prayer. The white virtue done this way. This is another way. May all the three time Buddhas, namely past, present and future Buddhas, may all their holy deeds succeed, and may all their prayers be succeed.
So, of course, their holy deeds are for sentient beings. Their prayers are for us, all the sentient beings, to happiness, you see, to be free from suffering. Praying for success of Buddha’s holy deeds, their prayer is same as it’s same as praying it’s same it’s same as praying for yourself. It’s to be happen to each other, all that happen for yourself. It’s same.
So this is what they pray to us. And then I dedicate all the merits to preserve dharma, the realizations, the scriptural understandings. So those words meanings, you see. Dedicating, say, to preserve and to flourish in this world. Then next one, dedicate all three-time merits collected by me, by others?
Myself, also think of oneself, lots of family members. And then all the sentient beings who have connection to oneself. And all the students in the FPMT organization, and the students here at Losang Dragpa Centre, and all those benefactors, and all those who sacrificed their lives in service to Dharma, and all the rest of the sentient beings. May we never be separated away from the four Mahāyāna Dharma wheels. In all the future life should never be separated away from from Mahāyāna Dharma wheels.
Probably, I’m not sure I can remember all, meeting the Mahāyāna virtuous friend and then let’s say, being the conducive, being in the right environment you see, to be born in the to be born and to be to live in the right environment. So born in the fam you see, right environment, family who support your Dharma practice environment. Then conducive place that healthy place, as explained in the śamatha, the teachings of śamatha, you know, where you do śamatha, it’s a conducive place, not harmful to your health. So to be in a harmonious place, Then the say, having done prayers. Having collected merits, something like that.
So they may be meeting Mahāyāna teaching. I think this Mahāyāna teaching might include also Tantra, I think. I don’t remember whether it’s there or not. So it should be included. So one’s self and also in the future to never separate away from the four Mahāyāna Dharma wheels.
To be able to complete it is called. To be able to fully complete it. The renunciation, bodhicitta, right view, the two stages, powerful enlightenment, and two stages to come to complete to to be able to completely as a exercise all these as quick as possible. So that means, see, she will be unified state of Vajradhāra. So that’s quick as possible.
So, it’s got very special dedication. So while we’re chanting, we do the meditation, dedication like this. You can read it in maybe this part you can read it in in in English. Which page? It is in the prayer book.
It is in the prayer book. It is in the prayer book. You can tell the page. Which page? You can tell people.
So thank you very much.