Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 62-minute teaching from Taiwan, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides a water blessing practice with direct relevance to contemporary suffering. He begins with bodhisattva motivation, recognizing all sentient beings across the six realms as kind teachers, then leads a detailed visualization of thousand-armed Chenrezig radiating purifying nectar over the ocean to bless all life in the water. He teaches three types of charity and specifically addresses the purification of those caught in war, terrorism, and violence. Includes self-deity generation for practitioners who have received Chenrezig initiation, followed by the same method applied to Medicine Buddha. Practical compassion work grounded in real-world harm.
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File: 2005 06 01 4 TAIWAN Hualien 1st JUNE05 Pt 1.mp3
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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: 62.4 minutes
Words: ~1,339
So maybe we do a practice. Maybe we do the practice in a little while, don’t we? What? Going to America. I think it should be Taipei and then Taipei.
Yes. So we’re going to we’re going to bless the water. So we all can do meditation. Numberless hell beings, from whom I receive all my past happiness,, present, future happiness, realization of the past liberation, enlightenment, and including enlightenment. They are most precious, most kind ones in my life.
I must free them from all the suffering causes bring them to enlightenment by myself alone. Numberless hungry ghosts, from each of them. Received all my numbers past happiness, present happiness, future happiness, including liberation from saṃsāra and then really liberation, full enlightenment from each of them. So they are the most kind and most precious ones in my life. I must free them from the suffering causes, from all the suffering causes and being enlightened by myself.
I receive all my numberless past, present happiness, present happiness, future happiness, including liberation and enlightenment. I must free them from the suffering causes and bring into enlightenment by myself. Numberless human beings, from whom I receive all my past happiness, present happiness, future happiness, including liberation and enlightenment. They’re the most precious and most kind ones in my life. I must free them from all the suffering causes bring to enlightenment by myself alone.
Numberless asuras from each of them I receive all my numberless past happiness, present, future happiness, liberation, enlightenment, everything. But most precious and most kind ones in my life, I must free them from the suffering causes, bring them to enlightenment by myself alone. Liberation, enlightenment, everything. For the most for the most kind and most precious one in my life, I must free them from all the suffering causes, bring them to liberation and enlightened by myself alone. Therefore, I must achieve enlightenment.
Therefore, therefore, I’m going to do the meditation or recitation of the Buddhas. And and they liberate the liberate the liberate the sentient beings who are living in the water. Liberate the sentient beings, and liberate the sentient beings who are living in the water, by blessing the water. So I’m going to practice loving kindness, wishing that which that sentient beings brings to have a to have happiness, including all these numberless sentient beings living in the water. And then the charity of Dharma by chanting mantras for all sentient beings.
But thinking and reciting the mantra for all the hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, suras, asuras, for all the sentient beings. Dharma charity. And the charity of charity of, say, giving fearlessness. So the by by making natural charities, by giving blessing the water, and then they’re giving the nectar charity to the lower realms. So they get liberated from all this.
They get liberated from their sufferings, from the lower realms, and they get higher rebirth. And the animals living the water or the number of things, by blessing the water, then purify the karma, and they get higher birth. So charity of fearlessness. So three types of charity. I like this.
Then that’s three types of charity. Outer charity, inner charity, miscellaneous. Miscellaneous charity is giving their food, so to say, to the others in the mundane charities of miscellaneous. So here, we are practicing two types of charities. So we visualize thousand-armed Chenrezig over the ocean, like mountains.
And nectar beams emit and purifies six realms. Numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals. All the six realms of sentient beings. Then, particular the let’s say, then, bless the water, and then bless the bless the ocean and purifies the all the numberless animals, insects, people, whoever whoever contact the water. Also they also also nectar beams emitted in this water, blessed.
So, with that meditation, so purifies sentient beings. Then bless the ocean, purify them, bless this water bucket of them, and purify oneself. And the the particular particular people, the the the terrorists terrorists, some of the people who have vicious thought to harm, to bomb, to harm the suicidal bombs or who want to harm the world to others. So particularly, don’t think of those, they need to purify karma. Their their negative thoughts, their delusions, their karma is purified, particularly, of course, and children, the while we’re chanting mantra.
That’s happening in many countries. Iraq, many places, that’s happening. And then all the hatred all the hatred that people have to want to make war want to make war in other country, all those they any any total harm to others, then those who have so much habit to, you know, to make war in another country, those pacified. So it’s especially that. And also, there are other countries who has karma to be attacked and purified.
The other country who have so much happened to want to harm at war, and those other country who has karma to be attacked and purified. Purify the water and purify all the animals, all the sentient beings in the water. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
You. You. Are the and and and with the people who wanna harm others, and then countries who have come to be attacked by the people. So, nothing brings immediate result from this. So purified all the hell beings, numberless sentient beings.
All the delusions, all the karma, everything purified, they will become totally purified. They will become genocide. Visualize the thousand-armed Chenrezig. Then after that, all the hell beings become completely purified, all the delusions will go, and they all become Chenrezig. Then think visualizing thousand-armed Chenrezig radiating.
Then all the animals, then they come, right, from their lower rebirth will come to purify. Then they come to the foundation, then they all become a Buddha, visualizing that as a Buddha. Okay. But the same thing with human beings, suras, asuras. So if you have received yourself I say, you have received Chenrezig initiation, compassion for this, then you can generate yourself a deity.
Otherwise, that body become natural light. Mind will be purified. There and also they blessed the water. The whole ocean blessed. Nectar comes from the Chenrezig.
Blessed. Purified all the sentient beings living in the water. Chenrezig is pleased. So pleased, so very pleased, that one is going to live one’s life to benefit others. Then, Chenrezig is pleased.
The melting, light absorbed absorbed within you, Absorbed within you and then bless your body, speech, mind. Become inseparable. Have received initiation, then generate yourself as the deity, your body will become inseparable with the deity. Body of holy body, body of holy mind. Otherwise, just think the nectar light absorbed, absorb and bless one’s body, speech, mind as well.
So as you generate yourself as Chenrezig, then you you are blessing you are blessing yourself. Your body becomes like a relic. It becomes this way. Your body becomes like relic because you visualize it, it changes your body. If you have Now next, we’re gonna chant the medicine Buddha.
So same thing visualize above the ocean. And come and purify the same thing. all the six realm sentient beings. Let’s bless the water and then purify this and then leave in the water. And then all those people who are which is thought to harm others, terrorists, wanna harm others, they need to also purify, as well as the countries who attack another country who want to make war purified.
And those are the countries who have karma to be attacked and purified. Whose name, by merely hearing, who has equal compassion, who has compassion equally to all sentient beings without exception, and by merely hearing whose name eliminates the sufferings of the lower realm beings. Then the medicinal guru, the medicine Buddha, who who eliminates the sicknesses of the beings’ minds. To the What is this? What is this?
What? Is it cream? Yes, the cream. Yeah. It’s Buddha Buddha statue.
Buddha Buddha statue. Other people haven’t. Nobody have any tea? Mama. I like this.