Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 50-minute teaching from Taiwan, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides practitioners through a visualization-based deity practice from the Pratyutpanna Sūtra. He describes the meditation structure in detail—visualizing a peaceful deity with yellow robes, seated on a moon disc within a jeweled palace surrounded by mountains—and clarifies the tantric initiation requirements that determine who may practice such visualization. Rinpoche introduces two associated mantras: a longer one for fulfilling wishes, and a shorter one for protection in times of harm or danger. Beyond the formal sessions, he emphasizes that the heart of practice is bodhicitta—the awakening mind—integrated continuously throughout all daily activities and paired with mindfulness. The teaching closes with elaborate dedications for world peace, the liberation of all beings, and the swift completion of dharma projects.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-12
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 50.4 minutes
Words: ~1,987
So wisdom, seeing emptiness, then generate into Suchness,, maintaining emptiness. The 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 Suchness contains those meanings of the two, the selflessness.
Selflessness, the person’s selflessness, like this. So, anyway, now your wisdom seeing emptiness that then manifest into a lotus moon disc, your mind in the form of a seed syllable. The seed syllable transforms, then that transformed into your mind, the deity, which is then transformed to. Yellow. Yellow holy body in yellow color, having upper upper, you know, dress yellow.
Very peaceful, very peaceful face. So now so now here, you cannot visualize yourself as the deity. 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, Adi, you are not permitted to visualize yourself as the deity. But if you receive any of those any any of any great initiation of the highest tantra 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? It’s called 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, loom. You can’t recite. 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 blessing by hearing. So the those who received great initiation that has received that initiation, and if that’s so, then you visualize your mind seeing this. Then see the deity on the large moon disc, then that becomes the holy body.
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. Multicolored, I think multicolored. 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 deity, fulfilling all sentient beings’ wishes, you see, fruit fulfilling 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 beautifully carved jewel ornaments, that Then then now with the wisdom being invoked, similar aspect that absorbed within you. Sitting 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, loom by healing, but not we’re not permitted to repeat. So that then I get the blessing of the long mantra that is 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 the Angela Wang 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 you. 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 mantra for a long time for a long time. Called the short mantras, which comes from that that when I went to Raxaul, so when there was no initiation in the morning or I took teachings from Gonsar Rinpoche, a renowned Geshe, 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 deteriorated, already lost a few volumes. Mhmm. So a few of the lineage lamas have passed away too. And so when there’s no teaching of that, then these these sūtra, Pratyutpanna Sūtra, to all transmission from with Lama Zopa, which I’ve been waiting for a long time.
I’ve been I’ve been hearing the Pratyutpanna Sūtra from many Chinese and especially Angela 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 small practice.
At the moment, only what I did there in the that was given to laypeople to practice, but we didn’t get to translate more prayers. So the the blessing 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 session is left. I haven’t finished, one session is left.
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 instructions. 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 sadhana mantra, 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 sessions, maybe one of the times in the morning, you know, to explain the the every activity to always, you know, to dedicate for something to do everything for the total benefit of others. Maintain bodhicitta throughout today. Already.
What have you said today? Maintain bodhicitta. Okay. So I think that’s so I think that’s it. So there’s many qualities of Buddhist Sri Lanka.
You know, Buddha explained. That’s it. So if when you have such a problem, then if you pray to the Buddha and make offering, it’ll be everything will be, you know, succeed and resolved. So there are many cases like that, many points like that. So 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. Om Ah Hum and so on, the mantra. 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 the hearts of all those who give up their lives for others with patience 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 the body to to be generous in the hearts of all the terrorists, in the heart of all the people who have which is taught to harm others. And who’s and who’s the heart of the to generate 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 become like you, the Buddha. 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, May myself and all sentient beings connected to me, wherever we are, in this universe, in this country, and in the world,
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 gain positive imprints. And may they find refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. And all their wishes become fulfilled through the Dharma. And men nobody experience war, and famine, covetousness, dangerous fire, water.
So all those things, all the sufferings of the migratory beings from now on, and they made the chief enlightenment as possible. May they all achieve enlightenment. Now all the projects to fulfill the wish, which are being assessed, immediately be completed, as well as the different Maitreya statues to be constructed, to to be completed as soon as possible, and to be of much benefit for all. Then we should bring enlightenment as soon as possible. And by utilizing Buddhism, especially by utilizing the Buddha Dharma, the aim is to bring peace, 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 monasteries to spread the dharma, preserve the pure dharma. They benefit beings throughout different parts of the world. So it’s a service different parts of the world, and then they are helping to provide and at the forefront of helping these centers, the needs and the and the projects.
And so all this said, may they not only be successful, but most beneficial. And then this one needs that delay of a second. The path. There exists, there was empty. No matter where it exists, but it was empty.
It should be enlightenment. Actually, they have manifested as Buddhist stupas. They’re they’re enlightened being with the manifested Buddhist stupa. So and they lead sentient beings who are empty of enlightenment to be freed from all those obscurations. In the hearts of us and most of others in the hearts of everyone in this world.
So, good morning.