Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 89-minute teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides practitioners through guru yoga practice with Heruka, covering confession of samaya vows, specific requests for blessing and realization, and merit dedication prayers. The practice involves inviting the guru into the heart, confessing transgressions to purify the mind, and making direct requests for enlightenment in this lifetime. He then offers extensive dedications for FPMT centers, world peace, compassionate leaders, and the liberation of all sentient beings. The final section teaches a foundational insight on emptiness: all phenomena appear as real and existing independently, yet are actually merely labeled by mind. This gap—the fundamental hallucination underlying saṃsāra—is the root of cyclic existence. For those already initiated into Heruka or familiar with guru yoga practice.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-09
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 89.3 minutes
Words: ~1,962
Then those. The the limb, the the eight line prayers to their father, Heruka, mother. So by inviting this, then all the all the dakini energies all the dakini energies in the twenty four holy places, they enter in your heart, and you bless your chakra when it descends into father, mother, they always abide in your heart. So yeah.
Next, request the guru Heruka in the heart and then confess the nirmanakaya, the samaya vows. They need to recall the relationship with guru from beginning to birth. If you wanna confess. The guru Heruka has fully accepted, delightfully accepted, your confession. And so everything is purified, complete purified.
Your mental continuum becomes completely pure. And then make a request to achieve realizations from guru devotion, in this very life, from this particular life, Buddhahood, to attain clear light in this very lifetime without delay, within this very second. Then what about other wishes one has? One kind of question then the request, say, all the plans, you know, all the in the the the center, the Heruka, to be most beneficial. So they must able to spread a lot — I’m not talking about teaching in the whole world.
And and then we receive all the needs, all the conditions with that that perfectly qualified, you know, listening teacher. Yeah. And then so I can make all those request. And then all the blessings will be received, the same, by all the five hundred that have been started, all the rest of the projects. Fully accepted your request.
To bring success. The the way to the the prayers, the eight line prayers of the mother. Before that, there’s a there’s a offering. So that should be done before. The offering to Buddha is also on.
So this should be done before the praise. Okay. You mean that you mean that that lady? No. You mean that lady?
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Okay. Success of the center and all that in the rest of it, we just and this is we’re going to Protector prayer. Protector prayer. It’s in Chinese? In Chinese?
It’s not here. It’s in the. Bed in bedroom. The students benefiting this organization. Those who give up their lives almost doing service in all the centers and in all the houses of FPMT.
And then in particular, in the hearts of everyone in this world, the hearts of all the leaders of the world, and in house of all the terrorists, all the people who has the who has the intention of mind to harm others, to be eradicated in their heart. And without delay, the second, in whose heart, may the love and compassion increase. That we all that we have all this opportunity to practice to practice Dharma, to practice Lamrim in particular, the heart of the Dharma, to come every day closer to realization, path of liberation to enlightenment is by Buddha’s compassion. Okay. Then to have, step by step, all the holy realizations immediately.
They may able to may may I and the also family member or the student benefactors, those who give up their lives, so on and so their service. All the rest of the members may be always meet a perfect qualified mahayana guru in all of in all of future lifetimes, and only to be able to see only enlightened beings, from each side, from all sides, and to do the only action of most pleasing holy minds, from each and every side, and to fulfill the holy wishes immediately in all future lifetimes. Then may all sentient beings be most benefited also. Then then it will cause generate faith in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and karma in the eyes of all sentient beings. And then generate bodhicitta in all their hearts.
And spread in the hearts also. And by the same all the needs for that. And what about the project? They may have success immediately. Then so to that needs, then perfect the conditions for the resident and or everything, whatever, all the rest, whatever needs for that.
Then may anyone who comes, anyone who puts their feet at the center, including not only human beings, even the spirits, even the insects. In the sense that mean the on the place of the center. May they be purified. May they be free from all the sickness. Then may they never be reborn in lower realms forever.
And may they immediately find the Buddhism and generate bodhicitta and realize emptiness. And complete the path in this very lifetime. And everyone who comes here to be more most benefited life, become source of happiness of all sentient beings. So that is all the rest of the FPMT centers to become like that, to be most beneficial like this. These are the three time prayers requested by all of you.
On behalf of the family members, all the student benefactors here and all the rest of the organization. And then those who give up their lives to organization and service and and those who have given me prayers, those names given to me. May all of us have a long life to be held to all of which we succeed immediately. May they be able to realize bodhicitta in this very lifetime. Then those whose names were given to me, those who have died, and all the students who have passed away.
May those who are numberless be held in the light, and may they be liberated from all the suffering and achieve the perfect enlightened body. May they have the opportunity to meet the Dharma, the Mahāyāna teaching, and may they achieve enlightenment as quick as possible. But may those sentient beings who have been sick, hearing or seeing sentient beings who are sick. Just by that, may those sentient beings have their illness cured. And generate bodhicitta and achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.
And also by seeing, by one seeing and healing, and by seeing oneself healing, may that cause those sentient beings immediately to become pure and free. May they become enlightened. May they complete the path in this world in the most beneficial way and made most beneficial also limits, may that cause all to purify all the obscurations and collect most extensive merit. And, may that which brings enlightenment as quickly as possible. This patience, may it enter into all beings’ hearts.
The may all the action become only cause of enlightenment and all collect extensive merit. See, only they they live their life. They want to benefit each other and know how. And through through that then, perfect outer prosperity as well as inner prosperity, all the able to complete all the path of enlightenment, reaching enlightenment as quickly as possible. There will be a perfect peace and happiness in the world, and may all the may all the needs, all the funding, all needs to be complete to be received, to be complete as quick as possible for that as well, as soon as possible.
Then may all the support be received to support the monasteries, all the existing ones, all the Sangha, the practicing Dharma, spreading Dharma, to be able to continue to support them. That element of completion of those largest monasteries, the teachers supporting the teachers and and the the Sera Monastery with more than two thousand monks. And then they’re able to food and so forth, able to continue that and that. Atom, then that and then other monasteries. Then to build monasteries in different parts of the world to spread Dharma, study Dharma.
But for for the benefit of sentient beings, this is all the needs for that. And then it was to build a whole host in just different parts of the world. May all the needs be received, as well as for all the social service in all parts of the world. May all the needs be received. The hospitals in Tibet and all the projects in Mongolia and other in the western countries, the various social services, India, and all those other countries.
May we be able to lead all those to a good heart. All the social service may able to help to to develop good heart in their in their mind. And yeah, and they are able to, provide to the fund for the centers when they need and the projects. And so in that way, they’re able to able to, say, be able to illuminate this world, bring the light of happiness of the dharma. That which appeared real world in a sense existing from the outside in view of the universe, but which is totally nonexistent empty in view of the wisdom.
Realize the nature, which is the which is the ultimate nature of the phenomena. Who appear the real one in the sense of existing from the side in view of ignorance, false mind, the wrong concept, but which is totally non-existent and empty in the view of the wisdom of their absolute wisdom. that which is apprehended and believed in by ignorance. That that real existence. And as I achieved the the enlightenment, which appears as real in the sense of existing from its own side in view of ignorance, but with the with the wisdom, with the total which is total nonexistent empty in the view of the wisdom, of the wisdom.
Lead sentient beings, who appear as real in the sense of existing from their own side in view of ignorance, but are totally non-existent and empty in the view of absolute wisdom, which is the ultimate nature of the person. To the state of enlightenment, which also appears as real in sense of existing from its own side in view of ignorance, but which still is empty in view of the wisdom. By Mañjuśrī’s power, all that appears as real in the sense of existing from inside, but was still now empty. in view of the absolute wisdom. So everything what what all the phenomena, what it is, all these phenomena, it’s simply what is merely imputed by the mind, a label made by the mind So and the label is of the mind.
But right after the first second it is imputed. Next second, when it appeared back, it doesn’t appear back as merely imputed by mind. It appears back as not merely imputed by mind. So not realizing this, not disc not having discovered this, and this and this hallucination. Not having discovered this, and then believing that it is true, and that’s the root of the problems.
That’s what makes us to continuously circle in saṃsāra and experience all the Therefore, when you train our mind to look at everything empty, as if they are empty, and and may we realize our mind’s. Reality, it is a whatever it is merely imputed by mind. But when it appears, it appears as if it is there on the base. From the base, it is appearing to you.
So that’s the hallucination. Dedicated prayers. They are trying to spread the teaching in all directions for all of us in this world. To multiply merit, may it be multiplied into one thousand times. To multiply merits one thousand times.
So so it took a long time. So yeah. So thank you very much. Would like to thank you very much for all all the hard work. Not only this time, it was the past.
It was better before.