Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 20-minute teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides practitioners through merit dedication prayers supporting dharma preservation and world benefit. He outlines dedications for monasteries, sangha, hospitals, social services, and universal education centered on developing compassion and loving-kindness. The core instruction addresses how merit multiplies exponentially through Buddhist practice — each prostration with bodhicitta motivation accumulates merit comparable to atoms of the earth. Rinpoche then teaches merit amplification through name mantra recitation and the seven limbs practice, showing how practitioners can magnify accumulated virtue a hundred thousandfold. The session emphasizes that all sentient beings — including animals and those suffering — participate in and benefit from these dedications through dependent arising. Suitable for practitioners with some familiarity with bodhicitta and merit dedication.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-01
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 20.1 minutes
Words: ~1,086
And all the needs, all the fundings, the needs be received to that lacking center. Then supporting all the sanghas there. And the in these in the monasteries, the major monasteries, and the branches of monasteries, the supporting, helping them to preserve dharma, spread dharma, as well as building monasteries during, all over the world,, preserve dharma, spread dharma. May all this may all the needs or the funding be received to do to to to benefit the sentient beings as well as social services. Different parts of the world of Mongolia and Tibet and the operating eye hospital and so forth.
And different parts of the world, hospitals and so forth, social services, then universal education, the to to generate a good good heart, a loving kindness, compassion, tolerance, and practice kindness towards others, and so forth. The universal education to be spread all over the world, it will be accepted in the public schools. And anyone who come to learn become like compassion Buddha, source of peace and happiness of all sentient beings. Happiness of all sentient beings. So all the needs for all these spiritual service may be received, successfully, without delay.
Then the as well as all the centers, the meditation centers to be most beneficial to all sentient beings, and that causes to find further, beneficial karma, arising bodhicitta in everyone’s heart, and then, in then the hearts of all the living beings to receive all the needs for that. All the project will succeed quickly. And to also as well as to build a whole lot of different parts of the world to cause and to cause and to purify as and to collect the merits as we put in the quickest way and then bring them to enlightenment as quickest way. So all this to happen. And what type of particular wishes you have also make a strong prayer to Bodhisattva.
These are the past, present, future, may be included in all realms. may be included by others, which exist but do not exist. From their own side, they are totally empty. Neither I who exist but who is who do not exist from the side who is totally empty. Achieve all the bodhisattva qualities, all the qualities all the qualities of a fully enlightened being.
This is Bodhisattva, enlightened being by manifesting as a Bodhisattva. All qualities which exist, but which is empty. And lead all the sentient beings who exist but do not exist from their own side, who are totally empty. True that and true that there’s Buddha’s, there’s Sukhāvati, as well as Sukhāvati state of enlightenment, Tuśita’s state of enlightenment, that which exists but which doesn’t exist from its own side, that which is totally empty. Peerless liberation alone, which exists but who doesn’t exist do not exist from its own side, that is totally empty.
I did it for the merit to be able to follow Samantabhādra and the Buddha and the the realized ones. And I dedicate all my merits same way three time Buddhas dedicated their merits. All the past, present, Buddhas dedicated their merits. By others. May the general, simple, practical amount of our teaching, may be spread in all the directions, may be flourished in this world by completely occupying what wants to heart, wants to family members and all of our hearts, everyone in this world without delayed second.
Now next, we’re going to chant the name mantra of the Buddha, Buddha Samaya Mantra, to increase each merit to one hundred thousand times. Each merit we collected before and today. So we collected a limitless causes of merit with bodhicitta motivation before we did the prostration. And with each prostration, we collected the inconceivable, like atoms of this earth, you know. So like drops of ocean, you know, however, un inconceivable.
With this projection, we collected. And because we did prostration to Buddha Sarva Gata, and all the Buddhas, Sangha. So a numberless cause of enlightenment, liberation, all of the happiness, future lives, we collected numberless times. Then all the touching, prostrating to all the holy objects. And then also by that, we collected numberless cause of enlightenment, liberation, happiness, future lives.
We collect prostrations towards the stupa, you know, by visualizing that think maintaining this way. So so we constantly collect merit. So many times, you know, collecting numberless merits, you know, with that motivation. You see? The when we prostrate, we prostrate by visualizing all that.
Mhmm. The gap is all the whole objects. So then with the with we collect the inconceivable merits with each practice of seven limbs. So when we rejoice, you see, and during that time, we will practice limitless prostrations so many times. So this all this by reciting the buddha’s name, Buddha’s seven-name mantra, each merit collect each merit increased to one hundred thousand times.
They can be the prayer can be initiated, and this way you get benefit. Multiply each one into one thousand times. Then recite the medicine Buddha name, another Buddha name to actualize all our prayers. Of Om mani padme hum. Then due to infallible dependent arising, due to my special attitude, may all my pure prayers be succeed immediately.
We offer this scarf. So say. We offer this kata. So first we first we make charity to every hell beings, hungry ghosts. Every hungry ghost, every animal, every human being, Suras, asuras, intermediate state beings, every human being, every Sura, asura, intermediate state means.
So we give to everybody. Then on their behalf, we may we may offering to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and all the Buddhas of Dhamma Sangha. So again, we we’re able to then this way, we may offering to every single Buddha, Bodhisattvas, you know. Then think that all the statues, give to everything, all the ten directions. So we think that that will be offered.
So from here, we get offered to all the whole object that was in Nepal, India, China, the Sri Lanka, Burma, everywhere. From here, we offered to everyone. So we have the merits, causes of merit so many times. Okay? Then this way, numberless sentient beings, collect merit, numberless animals, every single insects, they collect merit.
Every single human beings, those who those who died in the war, those who are killing and those who are dying. So everybody, those who do not have job, you know, those who suffer from poverty, so able to collect merit in this way. So okay. Yeah. Hard.