Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 4-minute talk, Lama Zopa Rinpoche addresses a core meditation challenge: how to hold a long-term spiritual vision while remaining present and relaxed. He emphasizes developing an extended perspective on goals without scattered anxiety about the future, then offers practical instruction on the balance between concentration and ease — warning against over-effort, which breeds fatigue and mental tension, and over-relaxation, which leads to mind-wandering. The teaching suggests a middle path for meditation practice.
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File: 33 2005 04 16 YAMANTAKA.mp3
Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Malaysia (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-04-16
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~212
Slowly. What? In the prayer, you say. Yeah. That’s oh, good.
Yeah. Prayer is. But the katami can show you. The instruction have have big big have a big heart. You know, very extended thought idea.
I mean, extended. Very extended attitude. And then relaxed. Okay. I’ll take one more.
Look for I look for long distance goal. So you look you look for a very long. Like like a person within big project, make Yao Xi so look very far. Nothing need to happen till tomorrow. Make Yao Xi.
Then concentrate. But at the same time, relax the mind. Otherwise, maybe otherwise, you know yeah. It doesn’t you try so hard. You know, few lentils, some years, then then then normal energy.
Then then it clutch. You Maybe too much relaxing. Yeah. Yeah.