Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 22-minute Lojong teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche opens by explaining why sentient beings are more precious than wish-granting jewels—the foundation for cherishing all beings at all times. He then addresses Vajrasattva purification practice, illustrating it with a striking example of karma multiplication: a single unpurified act of killing doubles in weight each day, quadruples the next, eightfolds the next, until after fifteen days it becomes karmatically equivalent to intentional murder. Vajrasattva is the essential remedy, stopping this exponential growth and purifying both today’s actions and past-life karma. The teaching emphasizes that through practice, the wise one’s negative karma becomes small while the foolish one’s grows huge.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Malaysia (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-04-19
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 22.6 minutes
Words: ~2,209
They two, three, four, five. The fifth stanzas or commentary stanzas. Fifth one. Think it will be nice to receive the lung or transmission of Lojong thought transformation. Please share your mind for the benefit of all.
My kind ones. Okay? There’s a little bit difference in the different text. So here in this prayer book, it says, you know, means, may I able to this? May I able to practice?
You know? So so at the first one, may I be able to you see? You know, to say cherish always the this sentient beings all the all the sentient beings, you know, more precious than the wish-granting jewel. You see? With attaining the supreme sublime success.
So, you see, achieving achieving happiness, future life, good rebirth, that depends on the same kindness of same thing. Because by taking refuge, then you practice, you know, abandon ten non-virtue, practice ten virtue, morality. So that depend you can’t without sentient beings, you cannot there’s no way to practice morality. So on basis of sentient beings, you practice the morality, you know, abstain from killing, stealing, all these things. So you’re practicing on the basis of sentient beings.
You see? So, therefore, all that happen is official life, goes to birth, all that, you know, everything wealth, beautiful body, everything is received by kindness of sentient beings. That’s the first supreme success. Then the same sentient beings, You know, achieving liberation, achieving liberation forever from all the whole entire suffering of saṃsāra. You see also, you see, I say, so it’s even that it’s by the kindness.
It’s even liberation sometimes. As you see, by development of kindness, something that’s based on it that, you know, you can receive liberation. Otherwise, you can’t receive achieve liberation. So how? Because the cause of liberation is through higher training, higher training of morality, concentration, wisdom.
So all those three depend on the morality. And so without sentient beings, as I mentioned before, no way to practice morality. So totally dependent kindness of sentient beings that we are able to practice, that we can practice morality. But on the basis that we concentration and wisdom, so all those are kindness of sentient beings. So this is the second supreme success.
Achieve liberation from saṃsāra by kindness of. You see? Then third, achieving enlightenment. Also, we have to this supreme success, we have to receive by kindness of. Why?
Because of the cause. It’s bodhicitta. And without I say, bodhicitta, but this come from compassion great compassion. So without sentient beings, suffering sentient beings without existence of the suffering sentient beings, there’s no way to generate compassion. Okay?
So there’s no way to generate bodhicitta. There’s no way to also six paramitas. You see Bodhisattva deeds, it depend on kindness of sentient beings. Of course, there’s no way. So without that, cannot achieve enlightenment.
Without that, we can’t liberate numberless sentient beings from oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment. Can’t do that, which is our which is our target or the objective main objective of our life is to liberate numberless sentient beings from all the suffering causes and bring them to full enlightenment. That’s our objective, purpose of our living. You see, why we spend so much money to take care of this human body this time, you see, it’s all about that. There’s so much so much money to have shelter, so much money for food and clothing and expenses, hospital treatment and so much so much.
So that is it. That is, you see, to practice Dharma, to benefit of sentient beings, to liberate them from oceans of saṃsāra suffering and bring them to enlightenment. Okay. So that so you can see now. So with this thought of achieving, you know, sublime, you see, success.
You see, by kindness of sentient beings, then you see. Yeah. So you see, cherish, you know, cherish forever. I cherish on all the sentient beings. All the sentient beings, you see.
Forever, not for few minutes, not for few days, all the time, day and night. All the time means when you are happy, cherish others, you know, or cherish others in the day. When you are when you’re unhappy, depressed, when you’re problem, also that time, cherish others. So all the time. There’s no you know, exclude there’s no thing you see.
Oh, I’m unhappy today. I don’t cherish others. You know, today I’m happy. Cherish others. Or, you know, that’s first thing.
Today, go to today, I make more money. I cherish. I didn’t get much money, so I can cherish it. Anyway, so here, it has meaning, you know. I as long as other people practice other people practice Buddhism or not.
Other people practice compassion or not. It doesn’t matter. You see? This other person this other person who is who is fighting you, who is harming you. He or she practice compassion not good heart.
I myself, I’m going to do this. I’m going to practice bodhicitta. Dag nyid, I myself, I’m going to I’m going to live my life like this. This is what I mentioned before. With the with the thought, you see, that that includes.
All all the sentiments, not only whom you like, whom you don’t like, not only whom you like. Friend, enemy, stranger, that includes everyone. So they need more precious than wish-granting jewel, you know, because, you see, the reason for that. Now the reason is then the you see, that one achieve three the three supreme successes from them. But you can’t achieve three supreme success from just from which kind of jewel you can’t get.
You can’t achieve just from that. But from from from each every single sentient beings, you can achieve the three supreme successes. So so with the thought, I will I’m gonna cherish I’m I’m gonna cherish. I see. Now the Dag nyid, I’m gonna practice to cherish all all the time.
I think I went round and round. So I see like that. So here in here in the text you see. So the Dag nyid shawl. It says prayer.
May I ever also cherish. But it’s but in the there’s a Lojong teachings, the mind training transmission text. In there, it says, means, I see, I’m going to practice. I’m going to practice. You see?
Not not just the intellect to understand, you see? I’m going to practice. In Tibetan, you see. But English, think, you see, you should put that Dag nyid. This word should come out.
But I myself, whether this other person practices compassion or not, But but myself, I’m going to practice compassion. You see, they have been they’ve cherished all the sentient beings all the time with this understanding with it. So that’s it.
So I’ll stop there. So that’s the. So anyway, two verses are done. Two two two stanzas done. So how do myself settle the first practice?
Then depends on the next next stanza. In order to practice the first one, it has to practice the second stanza. Keeping one’s vows, the Vajrasattva purification. If they haven’t done The importance of Vajrasattva, this extremely powerful purifying practice. Why it’s important to recite is that that you see, if you create one negative karma, if you kill one tiny insect there, then that negative karma, if not purified.
If you don’t purify end of the day with the Vajrasattva, it will multiply, become double next day, and become double next day. And it becomes double next day. You see, next time it’s heavier, double next day. Then third third day, it becomes how’s it? It becomes four four times, like, it come up increases four four times.
Because next day is double. Two. You see? What you create the first day and then the second day is gonna increase. So double.
Then the third day, then third day, you see, double. So before the day before is it two it become two times Okay. So then the third day become as a four. It increased four. It come up.
It will be increased four. Then fifty day, we see four times. The third day, four times. No. Then then three days.
So then on third day, you see, it will light four times. So the fourth day fourth day, it will mobilize eight times. Eight times. Then fifth day, it will mobilize eight times to what? Sixteen.
Sixteen. So it’s very important to under to understand this point about the subject of this is subject about karma. So all these details, we have to know about it. How dangerous it is. So therefore, now here, after fifteen days, the tiny insect that’s killed today, one, you know, one is killed intentionally.
And then you see after fifteen days, by multiplying, it’s it increases because from one hand no. It becomes same heavy karma same heavy karma killed one human being. But after multiplying, see, after fifteen days, same karma, you have killed one human being. Even though you don’t have a story, killed a human being, but it but by increasing that new karma killed one tiny insect, you see. Then after fifteen days, it’s the same.
Then after eighteen days, it multiplies. It said that the one in thousand and the by Pabongka, the same. The thirty-one thousand and seventy-two, there are many increases. So so when you so at the by the time of death by the time of death then that one will come up by increasing. You see, it become like mountain, like earth.
One atom by increasing become mountain earth. Like that’s become so heavy. And then that makes future lives unbelievably heavy. Then all these sufferings. Even so even so even so even so all these unbelievable.
And imagine number of times, it’s just even sort of suffering in the lower realm. Also, in the human being, see, the rhythm, then all this is so much problem. All this, as I mentioned before, have to experience. So therefore, if you want come to must practice, but it it at end of the day, if you chant the Vajrasattva mantra, the long one twenty-one times or the short one OM Vajrasattva twenty-eight times. So it has power it has power to purify, it has power to stop multiplying, multiplying tomorrow.
That one, can’t actually kill one insect intentionally. So stop the would-be multiplying becoming double tomorrow, and then third day double and then they fall. Then they say, fourth day and age like that. So it stops it stops the multiplying. So you see, so this so this is unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable protection for you.
You know, incredible, you know, cause of happiness, you see, reciting Vajrasattva mantra. You see, it it stops it stops amazingly the negative karmas, you see, all the suffering really stops, you know, from this one, by purifying by Vajrasattva and stop multiplying this negative karma. So today so negative karma to stop multiplying next day is not only this one. There’s so many negative karma. Today, through body, speech, and mind,
So many so this so it stops as so it stops multiline. All these nikarma that we’ve done today, you know, become a double from today. See? So that’s unbelievable. Buddha is so kind, you know, so kind to us as human being that, you know, manifested Vajrasattva and gave this mantra which is an incredible power.
Then not all that, the Vajrasattva mantra purifies today’s negative karma and also past negative karma, past lifetimes’ karma. So depending how depending how perfectly the practice is done, the more powerfully the practice is done with bodhicitta, the more karma gets purified. So like that, you see how much is regretfulness one generated to alternate having done alternate karmas. So like that so you purify all the power as a so many years of negative karma get purified. So that’s the purpose of why Vajrasattva.
And end of the day, before we go to bed, we’re doing Vajrasattva. If you can’t rest up long, short Vajrasattva mantra twenty-eight times at least. So this is very, very important solution, see, practice to purify and stop experiencing suffering from the lower realms of all the problems in the future in the human being. So he said in the teachings, the wise ones’ negative karma even though it’s big, but it becomes small.
Becomes small. But the foolish ones’ negative karma even though it’s small, but becomes big. Foolish ones, who don’t know there’s such a practice, Vajrasattva, who doesn’t know there’s such practice and who doesn’t do the practice, then they even they create the rest of the karma, but they multiply every day become huge. But the wise one the wise one who knows the Vajrasattva practice, then you see, by doing Vajrasattva practice.
Even though they create negative karma, they create it so heavy, but they can be very small, very thin. So yeah. Like that. So that’s it. So I actually have thought of at first, I thought I was do in the future.
I’m ongoing. Ongoing maybe whole life. Yep.