Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 49-minute session, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches guru yoga and merit field visualization, emphasizing that practitioners understand the guru as the Buddha with unwavering conviction. He walks through the merit field in detail—describing precious substances and the emanation of mantric syllables. The teaching centers on purification visualizations: white light beams arise when purifying karma, yellow beams when receiving Buddha’s qualities. Rinpoche guides practitioners to extend these visualizations to all sentient beings, imagining each becoming the Buddha. He concludes with instructions on generating the immeasurable thoughts of loving-kindness, compassion, and joy. Pitched at practitioners who have already received guru yoga instruction.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-11
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 48.9 minutes
Words: ~850
Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. But that’s enough. There is already, say, that they all all retreat, said the that the transcription of this, the mantra, and also the more details, the you know, how to, in many different ways, to benefit the sentient beings with this mantra.
So you can imagine it. So that’s where you get a message. Now, that’s the refuge. In in Chinese, the visualization elaborate visualization of the refuge method. Refuge method along with the motivation.
Is it is in Chinese? And meanwhile. I don’t mind watching the clock. With with the meditation, or the all the Buddha. So with that, say, contemplation of the understanding, Then, that’s been emitted and absorbed.
Generally, come under Dharma, but you have the it come with the guru. Slandered in their mind, and arising ordinary person thought to the guru. They think it’s ordinary ordinary being. Can criticize, and so forth — such negative karma, the person, the guru from beginningless rebirth. They’re now receiving what?
I received I think I received all the qualities well and with full conviction of the guru as Buddha, that understanding the So, all the every Buddha every Buddha is all the guru. No. One guru is all the Buddha. That realization we’re supposed to have, supposed to achieve. The good realization.
Stable, good realization. So, with this meditation, then, she received all the qualities of the blessed one. You what? The holy body absorbed into that. Purified, the karma from beginningless rebirths.
The last part, there was mentioned then, received all qualities. Buddha. But but all the obscurations also purified. Now, receiving qualities of the Buddha, ourselves and also all the seven beings. Descending, absorbing into the heart of all sentient beings So when we do the purification of the the the receiving realization.
So, during the visualization of the merit field, there’s the scripture next to each merit field. There’s a right side. All the realization, you see, in the form of in the form of scriptures, and the scriptures. So, I don’t know exactly. Sapphire.
Not ruby. Sapphire. The expression, Beryl, lapis lazuli is the one doctor explained me that one one expert doctor explained me that lapis lazuli is not a correct translation of that This is some some sort of some sort of crystal or something very he said he he saw only one time in his life. It’s very rare, very, very precious, very rare. So I haven’t so I’m I’m not sure.
I haven’t seen that is that is said to that is approved. So I’m not sure. I don’t remember. It seemed something deep blue, very bright, bright, You know? Deep blue.
No other things inside, just pure. Deep blue, very bright. But this is what the learned doctor mentioned. He said that it’s human rare, not the lapis lazuli that we normally see. You know?
Quite common to see them. Anyway, people see lapis lazuli as precious stones. And then, see, they’re all each each syllable is making a sound, like a mantra recitation. The each each one is making a sound. The nectar’s nectar’s dripping from that.
So that’s and then the issue which has the beams — everything that I forgot to mention in the beginning. And when purified, white beams emit. Then when purified when we receive realization, the yellow beams, then white beams. And then when we receive realization, yellow beams absorbed. So here, Dharma scripture from this text.
Which is in the right side of the merit field. Yes. Not on the on the in the, like, a table, you know. So I’m just then part of the text. So visualizing that aspect.
Mind. Your mind. You have dharmakaya. You do this for the mind and also aspects of that way. Purified sentient beings, purified sentient beings.
And they all become Buddha. Every being becomes Buddha. That’s why every hungry ghost is becoming Buddha. Every animal becomes Buddha. Every human beings.
So as well, individual, everyone becomes Buddha. So visualize in that way. The mind will become dharmakaya, body will become dharmakaya. You try to you try to you you are seeing everyone. Buddha.
Okay. And what? In in in the Buddha. Now rejoice. For the meditation, same.
Whenever we do whenever we so whenever we do the practice this way. Then the Buddhas who Then immediate enlightened, then I’ll absorb back to your heart. Now look at again the sentient beings. Examine the look at the look at again the sentient beings. Examine them.
Actually they are not enlightened, whether it is mere visualization. So actually they are suffering with the voice of why do you say? So suffering with discursive thoughts and attachment. Then then you begin the practice of generating the immeasurable thought of loving-kindness, then after that, the immeasurable thought of compassion, then after that, the immeasurable thought of joy. Then I chant if you can follow the same chanting, they do that or life doesn’t matter.
Enlightenment. Well, you decide Chinese. If you can follow with Chinese, do you do that? It’s not as much.