Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 41-minute dedication and aspiration prayer following a Medicine Buddha puja, Lama Zopa Rinpoche leads practitioners through extended dedications. He dedicates merit for the long life and health of supporters, sangha members, and students at Heruka Center and throughout FPMT. Turning to those who have passed, he prays for their rebirth in pure lands or receipt of human birth and monastic ordination. The focus broadens to major projects, particularly the Maitreya statue construction, and—most urgently—to generating bodhicitta, compassionate motivation, in all beings, especially world leaders and those with harmful intentions, as an antidote to wars, famines, disease, and natural disasters. He stresses that these dedications depend fundamentally on wholehearted refuge and trust in Buddha, not on intellectual realization.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-04
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 40.6 minutes
Words: ~1,655
So that will live in the pure view and the harmonious and the inharmonious. And by receiving all the needs, all the needs, therefore, the for the study, for the practice. And a bit of All the protections. So all this also depends on the having the generous benefactors. The who are devoted to the teaching of the Buddha and the Sangha, and so who support the Sangha.
The and then all the benefactors teaching Buddha and the Sangha, and in particular, in the FPMT organization, all the supporters of the benefactors, and to have a long life, to be healthy. All the wishes succeed to serve the teaching of Buddha and the Sangha. So, see, their own practice, all their wishes, they succeed immediately. All their wishes, succeed immediately according to holy Dharma and similar. All this similar to all the students in this particular organization.
And here, Heruka Center, the center, all the supporters, all the all the organizers, all the supporters, all the students there. Anyone anyone who come to learn in the center, to have a long life, to be healthy. All the wishes will succeed immediately. They can practice all the Dharma. The most important, to be able to realize the path that is unified with bliss in everyone’s heart.
In this very lifetime, we go to enlightenment in seconds. Knowing that that’s inclusive of oneself. So including anyone whose name is given to pray to this Medicine Buddha puja, anyone whose name is given. So everyone sent those who are living there to have a long life. Everyone who could take their name, then to have long life, to be healthy, all the wishes, they succeed immediately according to the holy Dharma, and most important, to be able to realize the path, the meditation, in this very lifetime, in a second.
And medicine Buddha medicine Buddhas and all the protectors, the twelve groups of protectors called. So all those, then seven hundred thousand protectors around each of those, may their protection cover everyone, those who requested Medicine Buddha, whose names were given, then to say, the freedom from all the obstacles, outer inner outer inner obstacles. Then those whose names given to me, my Dharma friends who loved me, those who died. And so far so far, any student in this organization passed away, including them. And and and the dedication goes for them.
Any family member who passed away, friends, a friend or family member, any who passed away, a lot of them, including them, then any who have passed away, the rest. May they be born immediately, whichever, if they are in the suffering realms, and then immediately free from those suffering realms to to be reborn in the pure land where they can become enlightened, or maybe they receive a perfect human body. And from a young time, without wasting life, from a young time, then become, the the to take ordination in the teaching of the Buddha, to take ordination with a with a total renunciation of saṃsāra. And then by pleasing the guru with the with the body, speech, and mind, only only pleasing only pleasing the guru, okay, with the body, speech, and mind, train the mind through that. With that, train the mind to experience the realizations of the path.
That’s right. The generation stage, which ripens the mind, completes that and also completing the gradual completion stage to be able to complete and achieve the unified state of Vajradhāra, which are seven qualities, the so-called seven qualities as quick as possible. The Heruka Centre here, the Heruka Centre, to be most beneficial to all sentient beings. They’re able to cause number of sentient beings to cause to generate faith through Buddhadharma Sangha and karma. And then realize bodhicitta immediately in the hearts of all the sentient beings.
In particular, spread the complete lamrim, the unified path, throughout the hearts of all sentient beings. And by receiving order, whatever needs necessary conditions need to be received immediately. What in the immediately, but that will be in a second. So like this so like this, all the rest of this centers in the in the FPMT organization are to be sent. The most beneficial.
And please dedicate also your particular projects to fruitfulness for your wishes, and be successful immediately. And and define the Maitreya statue to be able to construct as quickly as possible, continue to complete abiding this world in miraculous forms, and to be more beneficial to us. That means it will cause all of us to collect the most extensive merit and purify all the obscurations as quickly as possible, and bring them in full enlightenment as quickly as possible, especially that they are able to inspire and inspire and generate a good heart, whoever comes, bodhicitta in everyone’s heart, and all the means, particularly in this world. Means in this world. So we do in the meantime, push up.
Also, the bodhicitta, to regenerate conventional bodhicitta in the hearts of all the particular in this world, and particularly in the in the heart of all the leaders of the world of the of the countries, And in the hearts of all the terrorists, the people the people who have harmful thoughts to harm the world, to harm the sentient beings. To be bodhicitta the kind of bodhicitta to be generated in in everyone’s heart, in all those people’s heart without delay in a second. So there is the greatest most urgency. can’t wait even for a second without genuine bodhicitta in their heart because so much danger harms the world to to the to the human beings to the human beings, animals. So many dangers in this world.
So, say, need to do very strong prayers. So during the for all of this, which is the most urgency. By everyone, generally, bodhicitta live their life only benefiting each other and do only action. That which say, all the actions that done with bodhicitta become only cause of enlightenment, Whatever they do, and collect the most extensive merit. So this way, so much so perfect perfect enjoyment and no economical problems in in in the whole world, in every country, including Taiwan.
Perfect enjoyment. And as well as inner inner prosperity, which completes all the realizations of the path to enlightenment. No problem. So so do we dedicate with the puja for all this? All the war, famine, disease, torture, poverty, sicknesses and dangers of fire, water, earthquake, tsunami, all these, where there’s danger they happen, these things should be stopped immediately.
May nobody in this world experience forever all these things. So in some countries, some areas, there’s so much suffering of a hurricane or the type of all these dangerous elements. So to be stopped immediately, all these things. Yeah. And then nobody in this world experience all these forever.
So we pray to Buddha. And so we pray for the world peace and harmony in the world and and and as as well as Taiwan. So all that. Then as then we prayed to Medicine Buddha. We can pray even now.
That’s what I’m mentioning. So that is getting done. Besides during the practice. So so may all the needs and funding for the forty-five and fifty meter Maitreya project to be completed to be received without delay in second. And that to continue to support the monasteries already existing.
Sanghas, Prātimokṣa, spread Dharma for all sentient beings, means in this world to be able to continue and and build nunneries in different parts of the world to practice Dharma, spread Dharma for the sentient beings. And and to the social service in different parts of the world, giving food in hospitals because we operate hospitals in Tibet. So social services in Mongolia and different parts of world, our hospitals, and to and the different parts of Western countries. So all these including universal education, the which aim to open the heart, generate the compassion, love and kindness, tolerance, and practice the kindness and forgiveness. So to to educate these things, so able so this way, the world to have so much peace as much as possible.
So all these social services to to succeed, to be as fast as possible. But they will need and building a whole new objects, different parts of the world, to consecrate them, put holy things inside, collect extensive merit, bring merit from them. And all the projects will send us to this succeed by receiving the necessary needs. We So all the sentient beings in order to achieve full enlightenment as quickly as possible. To be liberated from the oceans of suffering, and to achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.
The con the conclusion. So I spend more on the purpose of doing the puja than actual puja. Extra time for puja. Extra I spend more time on purpose of doing the puja than the actual time of practice. Yeah.
Time of practice. Explain more the purpose than the time of the the practice. So I suppose this might be shorter. So with the whole heart, how much faith and how much With the whole heart, more refuge we take from Medicine Buddha, but with the whole heart, that’s the most important. Whether we have realization or not, what each other thinks, realizations, blah blah blah, or the analysis.
But what we can do now is the strong refuge, reliance on Buddha, trust, then that will give great success. To bring all the sentient beings in your heart, bring all sentient beings to enlightenment, free all the hell beings from the suffering realms, free all the animals from all the suffering realms, So so we’re we’re going to do the Medicine Buddha puja. Yeah. Practice as much as possible. As much as possible, better quality practice.