Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 50-minute teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche introduces the practice of Sarvavid Vairochana, beginning with detailed visualizations of the peaceful yellow-robed deity and his celestial mansion surrounded by jeweled mountains. He clarifies the prerequisites: those without a highest tantra initiation may receive the mantra transmission through hearing but cannot visualize themselves as the deity. The teaching covers both the longer mantra, used to fulfill all wishes, and a shorter protective form recited when the country or virtuous leaders face external threat. Yet the heart of this retreat instruction is not the deity visualization itself but the cultivation of mindfulness combined with bodhicitta — the intention to benefit others — woven into every activity. He concludes with sweeping dedications for world peace and the enlightenment of all sentient beings.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-10
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 50.4 minutes
Words: ~2,054
So wisdom, seeing emptiness, then generate into So so maintaining, emptiness, I Aggregates. Look at them empty. Purify and emptiness both. The the ordinary eye and the the aggregates, which is the meaning of as a material emptiness, looking at them empty as they’re empty. So that’s the meaning of So So it contains those meaning of the two, the selflessness.
Selflessness, the person’s selflessness, like this. So, anyway, now your wisdom seeing emptiness that then manifest into lotus moon disc, your mind is the king. The king dissolves into you, then that transformed into your mind, the king, which is then transformed to. Yellow. Yellow holy body in yellow color, having upper upper, you know, dress yellow.
Very peaceful, very peaceful life. So now so now here, you cannot visualize your Sarvavid Vairochana. Those who haven’t received here it is said here it is said, if you haven’t received any of the the Kālacakra or Guhyasamāja, Yamāntaka, or Heruka, any of the any of the highest tantra if if you haven’t received any of the highest tantra initiation, then you are not permitted to visualize yourself as the deity. But if you receive any of those any any of the great any great initiation of the highest of the deity, then you can visualize yourself as the deity. Okay?
You can you can receive the yeah, you can you can just visualize on your crown. Yeah? Just keep the dissolution process. You visualize the deity of the crown. Those who haven’t received great initiation, k, of the highest tantra deity.
But you can receive the, yeah, the mantra lung. You can’t repeat. If you haven’t received the great initiation, you can’t repeat the you can’t repeat even the mantra, you know, when the mantra is giving, but you can receive the lung by hearing. So the those who received great initiation that has something to do with a deity, and if that’s something with a deity, then you visualize your mind to see your mind seeing seeing this. Then see the king on the moon, large moon disk, then that become the.
Color in what about color of the holy body in yellow, and upper upper upper holy body cover the other holy body, and that’s the yellow color, the divine dress. Peaceful eye, he says the root of the eye is red. Makara, I think Makara ornaments. The the the on up on the on the the crown, there’s a blue flower garlands. It says, the right hand holding fruit.
I don’t think it’s durian. I don’t think it’s durian. Anyway, right hand holding fruit, left hand holding lotus. On lotus, there’s a jewel. I guess, we signifies the function of the Sarvavid Vairochana, which all sentient beings’ wishes, you see, fulfills all sentient beings’ wishes.
Then radiating green light, it says. Then there’s surrounding things around. Yeah. Yellow celestial mansion around the jeweled rock mountains and the jewel the rock mountain, the jewel. And the snow snow mountains around.
I don’t know the advanced carved jewel ornaments that Then then now with the wisdom being involved, similar aspect that absorbed within you. Sitting in meditation like this, you know, like that. Not not as that bad as a posture. K. On the throat with the heart.
Okay? So stay forever this way. Stay forever this way. So from this meditation. Stay forever in this meditation.
So now then now they repeat between the mantra. So those who have received the great great initiation of the higher tantra, the yeah. Then repeat the mantra. Those who haven’t received you can receive the blessing, the mantra, lung by hearing, but not we’re not permitted to repeat. So that then I get the lung of the long mantra that’s full of all the wishes, you know, from the sūtra.
There are two mantras here, but I don’t know why it’s strange. In Chinese, the sūtra the sūtra, the translation is the sūtra sūtra sūtra didn’t have the mantra. What in case there’s different books, but the one say, maybe or Venerable Anla Rinpoche has. Didn’t have the mantra, but in Tibetan, there’s the mantra. There are two mantras.
One little short one, if there’s if there’s somebody attacking to you or to the country, that’s what you recite. Then you can defeat or, you see, that you can be free from, I say, others attacking harmony. You see? The short mantra, which comes a bit later. I don’t know which chapter.
I tried to look for it, I couldn’t didn’t find yet. But There’s there’s the longer mantra, which is fulfilling all the wishes. So this one I’ve been waiting for this room for a long time for a long time. Called the short mantras, which comes from that that when I went to Dharamsala, so when there was no initiation in the morning or I took teachings from Gonsar Rinpoche, and also from one Geshe Srinivasan, who lives in New York. So all transmissions of the seven Dalai Lama’s collections of teachings and but not finished yet.
Didn’t have lineage for all the text, seven Dalai Lama. I think it’s already already passed away, already lost lineage for few volumes. Mhmm. So a a few lineage lamas passed away too. And so when there’s no teaching of that, then these these sūtra, Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, the oral transmission, which I’ve been waiting for a long time, which I’ve been waiting for a long time.
I’ve been I’ve been hearing the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra from many Chinese and especially Venerable Wang and many. So but I haven’t read, so I was very curious. So when I was at Geshe Sopa’s place taking course quite a number quite a few years ago, so I bought a book from university and read, not complete finish, but read quite a bit of the book. It was quite it was amazing. So I thought to make some to make small practice.
At the moment, only what I did there in the that was given to lay people as a daily practice on that didn’t get to translate more prayers. So the the transmission of this mantra. But the so I will read some part of the retreat, the of this, which I recently received from December. The last one session is left. I haven’t received not finished one left for one session.
So in short, if there’s somebody attacking the country, do a proper protection for the virtuous king. Protect the king the virtuous king, and, basically, protect the country So that’s it. So the the initiation is finished, but that’s it. The old transmission of the meditation instruction. So this this retreat is much stress is the mindfulness.
This space of bodhicitta, besides this besides normal one prostration, the number of mantras, bodhicitta meditation, the seven-limb practice, of course, is that, but much of it is mindfulness, mainly bodhicitta. Every activity every activity to practice mindfulness and applying bodhicitta. So that’s the key of them. That is the other aspect of the retreat besides, you know, besides the sessions. So I thought mhmm.
But so it will tell long time tonight. So I think so tomorrow. And then so one of the set set maybe one of the times to the morning, you know, to explain the the every activity to always, you know, to dedicate for something to to do the to do the total benefit of others. Mantra recitation becomes the main thing today. Already.
What have you said today? Mantra recitation becomes the main thing. Okay. So I think that’s so I think that’s it. So there’s many qualities of Buddha Śākyamūni.
You know, Buddha explained. That’s it. So if when you have such a problem, then if you pray to Buddha and make offering, it’ll be everything will be, you know, succeed and resolved. So there are many so many cases like that, many points like that. So so again again, it seems you can use this for anything, for any success, any problem, so they can chant this mantra.
The you can start a short mantras, but I think it’s a long mantra, but I just read. So it is there. It is a there’s this short prayer. And this beginning this name has a prostration homage to. Then there’s a mantra there, backside, you see.
Then there’s short prayer. That in Hong Kong, the the the. So tonight, some some quite quite number of you that I met in the past. So I’m happy to meet again. Or new one or older one or we.
So main thing is to to make the life the precious human life that we have very short time, make best use, most beneficial, what you can with the bodhicitta. And in the hearts of all those who give up their lives for the benefit of others and in service. It may be in the hearts of all the sentient beings, in particular, in this world, in the heart of people in this world, in this world, and and in particular, in the hearts of all the leaders of this world, of every country. And to be generous and may bodhicitta be generated in the hearts of all the terrorists, in the heart of all the people who have which is taught to harm others. And and in whose hearts, may bodhicitta generate and increase.
I dedicate to stabilize all the holy beings in this world who are on it. And and, let’s say, in this world to benefit us and the beings. May I be become like only like only you. They are the Buddhist. Like your holy body, like your the holy and the pure land, and like your holy name, the benefit, you know, to be wish-fulfilling for towards all the sentient beings to bring them liberation enlightenment.
By having the by having prayed to the to you, A question, I met may myself and in this sentient beings that was connected to me, where we were about I think in in this in in which universe I say, universe. Universe. Universe. Universe. Universe.
The country country and the world, the place, house. May all those sentient beings, may all the sickness be peaceably immediately, spirit harm, and may the karma be purified immediately, and then may they get auspiciousness. And they find refuge in the Buddha Dharma Sangha. And and all the wishes becomes accomplished immediately through the Dharma. And men nobody experience war, famine, disease, covetousness, dangerous fire and water.
So all those things, all the endless of the negative karma from now on, and they made the chief enlightenment as possible. May all be enlightened after. Now all the say, prayer and projects to fulfill the wishes, based on needs, assessed immediately, as well as the five different Maitreya statues to be constructed, to complete about this world, complete as soon as possible about this world and to be much better sure for all. Then we should bring enlightenment as soon as possible. And by utilizing Buddhist especially by utilizing Buddhist, the aim of the heart and bring bring purpose, peace, and happiness in this world and in the prosperity and it’s enlightenment as good as possible.
Mhmm. And then you see what it needs. Then all the project all the rest of the projects in this organization, they’re offering of service to who preserve the Dharma and building monastery to pass the world, preserve dharma Dharma. They are benefiting beings in all different parts of the world. So it’s a service different parts of the world, and then they are helping the provider and the front of helping these centers, the needs and the and the projects.
And so all this said, made more they’re not successful, but most but most beneficial. And then this one needs no delay of a second. The path. There was exist there was empty. Matter where exist, but it was empty.
It should be enlightenment. Actually, they had Buddhist teachers. They’re they are enlightened beings who have manifested as Buddhist teachers. So and they don’t listen to beings who are led to enlightenment by mastery of emptiness. In the hearts of us and most of others in the hearts of everyone in this world.
So, good morning.