Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 143-minute teaching at Hayagrīva center, Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins with visualization-based offering practices—showing how to transform rice, tea, and nectar into vast, sky-filling gifts to buddhas and sangha throughout the ten directions. He then develops his central theme: dharma is the sole authentic cause of happiness. While material conditions and worldly education help, they are secondary conditions only; without good karma and dharma practice, genuine happiness cannot arise. The action becomes virtuous, he explains, only when motivated by renunciation and bodhicitta, not by attachment, anger, or ignorance. He then emphasizes why learning and spreading dharma is the most beneficial service to sentient beings, and closes with prayers for the center’s success and the enlightenment of all. Pitched at practitioners with some familiarity with Tibetan Buddhist concepts.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-16
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 143.4 minutes
Words: ~3,491
Tomorrow now. Often. We just started the clod offering mantra. Clubs of okay. So this.
The rice and tea and the nectar, and then we oceans of nectar. We bless the manta class of offerings. So, Numberless Buddhas, Buddhas, receive receive limited discussable offerings. But the power of this mantra.
So it’s where then by thing you go, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, the essence each of the essence guru, so they will collect most extensive merit but numberless. Most extensive merit but numberless. So that we can dedicate the merits for the development of the center and as well as for the development of one. So there to remind the path to enlightenment and specialize in Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings. Okay.
So now, the words of it, the word, explaining the words of the truth, then we think here we particularly visualize. Each Buddha, Buddhadharmasangha received the sky-filling offerings, nectar offerings. Then do the do the power of the words, then each Buddha, Buddhadharmasangha, they actually receive them in the offerings as well as as well as visualize. Generate infinite bliss within them. It’s Buddha of the Sangha, I want to visualize essence of guru.
So we offer the the rice and oceans of nectar, oceans of nectar, we think. Also the tea in the oceans of nectar that are anomalous, even that is anomalous. Then we offer We can offer to the Guru Puja merits, fruits. So, anyway, we’re gonna offer first to to gurus by thinking the by thinking all the essence by thinking all the essence each each guru is all the Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, all the ten directions offer. Nameless nectar offer.
Generate infinite bliss. We offer to the first to the gurus, but I think each each one, each gurus is all the Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and all the ten that we are just I think that in that essence, they will offer the numberless oceans of nectar. Generate infinite bliss within them. Generate infinite bliss within them. And thanks to next to offer to all the guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, made it filled. Nice.
I’m sorry. The whole objects in the world that that that is in this world, but in the essence, and then guru, I think the as soon as Dalai Lama, that then Generate infinite bliss within them. Generate a great bliss within them. They come and listen they come and send message to the father. K.
Next to be of her, they even even the tea, rice, even though it’s small quantity, but we visualize like oceans of nectar. So offer to the even that number is we offer towards all the ten direction Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Ten direction, Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Then after that we offer oceans of nectar. We offer towards all the ten directions, statues, stupas, scriptures, and Buddhist relics that we can all over the different parts of the world, all the rest of the holy objects we offer.
But I think it is as a guru and generated great bliss within all of them. Next we offer Oceans of Nectar, we offer to Medicine Buddha, Sangye Menla, and the Thousand Names of Medicine Buddha for success. The benefits of Sangye Menla also to be able to fulfill the wishes of all sentient beings instantly and to be able to generate great compassion, to be able to take full responsibility to free the sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering. So we offer to Compassionate Buddha particularly.
Then as we offer the ocean to nurture towards all the holy objects, towards all every single holy object that which exist in this world. In every every holy object there in India, Tibet, Nepal, Mainland China, Sri Lanka, Burma, everywhere. Wherever there’s a holiday, to every single holiday, there was a temple in the within the individual people’s house, in the shop, on the statues in the shop. And wherever there’s a holy object in this world, we offer from here. Oceans and nectar, inviting the essence of guru and generating the bliss.
Did you all this? We collected the limit of merit by offering to the to the blessing. Then we collected numberless merit by having an offering to their most most extensive, you know, offerings by having an offering to gurus. Then, there are three times number of merit we collected, having offered to numbers of the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, all the ten direction, all of just statues to the scriptures. Most extensive offering then offering to numberless Buddhadharmasangha.
In this statue, it was six times numberless merit were collected. Then then I have a med offering to say, again, the ten direction Buddhadharmasangha, we collected three times numberless merit, and, again offered to a number of statues, to a scriptures, and also Buddha’s relics, there were different parts of the world. So, we have created more than three times the number of merit again. Then all the whole of just in this world, we have created innumerable numbers of merit. So, all that.
So, did you all all these merits and our past and future merits? About one hundred and five minutes. May I once and once with family members, all the students here, come to learn Dharma here, and all the supporters, benefactors of the center, then including teachers, organizers. And then all the rest All the rest of the sentient beings may never be separated from the triple gem. And then always able to make offering to triple gem and the triple gem, there was a realization from Guru Rinpoche, acting like this.
And specially Bodhicitta to make it arise in the hearts, in the hearts of everyone in this very lifetime. Most beneficial to all sentient beings. And able to cause to generate faith. The Dharma Sangha in the heart of all the sentient beings. And actually, bodhicitta and especially spread complete Lama Tsongkhapa’s teaching, standard teaching unified sūtra and tantra in the heart of all the sentient beings.
And anyone who comes, they may how say they did they just the minute when they come to center, negative karma immediately purified. May they never ever be reborn in lower realms. And may they they immediately get healed, all their sicknesses immediately get healed just coming to center and free from spirit harms possessions. And immediately able to realize the lower kinds of compassion, body, and realize emptiness. The good portion and then the body, the the conventional bodhicitta and absolute bodhicitta, every exercise, and they have the complete part complete the lamrim, others the entire teaching, their path.
In this very lifetime, anyone who comes to center, like that. So most beneficial to all sentient beings. Okay? And then, may receive may receive everything, need for all these activities, whatever need, whatever plans, projects that are be succeed and then receive all the needs for all this to happen. Okay?
Immediately. To the Buddha, I offer this to the The pure filled. The Buddha to the Buddha, who has inconceivable qualities, Dharma, which has inconceivable qualities, Sangha, who has inquisitive qualities. Devoting to the triple gems. The result, aspiration result, calming result is also inconceivable.
So to you the pure measure effort, and then I make this offer. So good evening to everyone. So I would like to thank very much to yeah. Listen teacher here, Geshe-la and the other and the other founders, the know, then the organizers, the students. For all your dedication, service to the sentient beings, which is the ultimate aim, the method teaching the Buddha to benefit of sentient beings, the method, the teaching teaching of the Buddha, service to Buddha’s teachings.
Our kind compassion of Guru Śākyamūni Buddha who sacrificed his life for three countless great eons, merits, charities, limbs, and even born as king, and met whole family charity to sentient beings. I’ve done many times. So practice paramita of charity for three kinds of greater eons, then morality for three countless eons, then patience and perseverance, and so on. So that completing two types of merit, merit of wisdom, merit of method, then able to complete the path of the method wisdom. It’s just too kind.
And then so that to reveal Dharma, the main point is to to reveal our Dharma, our sentient beings, to be able to guide us without to be able to guide us perfectly without any mistakes. So to give us this unmistaken the teachings, complete path to enlightenment to guide us. So Buddha sacrifices life for so many eons. So so for this we are so we offer service this this our kind compassionate Guru Śākyamūni’s teaching. We offer service, preserve, and to spread to the sentient beings ourselves practice and and made the teaching available to sentient beings.
Let’s see. Which is Buddha’s aim, which is Buddha’s wish, Buddha’s aim, the teachings left in the world to benefit us and the means. So, we’re offering services to the teaching, of self practice and also spreading. Cause other sentient beings to meet Dharma, to learn and actualize path and achieve liberation enlightenment, and be reborn in this way, end their suffering, end their Samsāra, which continuation has no beginning, but will cause them to have end, will cause them will cause their Samsāra to end.
So that we achieve our ultimate liberation, their happiness. And all of that, bring to full enlightenment, cessation of all the mistakes of mind and the completion of all qualities, the realization as well. So so there, I would like to thank very much for that to everyone, working very hard on service, which is the most important thing in the life. There’s nothing more important than than than this in the life. And this is.
It’s not practicing Buddhism is not is not just because the family is a Buddhist. You know, just many people, they all because from birth we are Buddhist. Why? Because family, my parents, blah blah blah blah, they’re Buddhist. So that that’s all they have to give reason or custom of the it’s a good a custom of traditional custom, not just the reason is not just that, you know.
So why we need to learn Buddhism and why why so we need to preserve the Buddha’s teachings and, you know, for sentient beings, you know, spread, preserve the spread for the sentient beings, including our self practice. It’s not just these reasons because we don’t like sufferings, we want the happiness, we want the long lasting happiness, we don’t want the short we if we have choice, we would like to have a long lasting happiness. We don’t want then basically, we don’t want suffering, we want happiness. Therefore, there’s no other means except dharma to achieve happiness. Even there’s a material conditions, other education, but there’s only corporate cause.
Only it’s all condition. It’s not the main cause, main cause of Dharma, merit, you know, the good karma. So, yeah, positive attitude and positive actions, those virtuous attitude or virtuous actions. So devotion to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, the Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, are there renunciation, detachment one renunciation of the bodhicitta, right view, so action time with those thoughts. So let’s say say the at least at least the lowest, at least the action become virtue because they’re done with the attitude, attitude, unstained by attachment, clinging to this life, unstained by anger, ignorance, ignorance, the karma.
At least that so then such attitude of virtue, then the action becomes a virtue, the result happens. The lowest, you know, the least. So, therefore, no other way to achieve happiness, even temporal happiness only through dharma. That’s why we have dharma. The same, we educate other sentient beings.
We educate other sentient beings so that they can engage into virtue so that they can achieve also the temporal happiness. Not just not just happiness life, the happiness of future lives. Even the happiness of this life came from whatever happiness we experience this life came from Dharma, came from good karma, done in the past. Past in earlier past in this life, early life or the past life before this, in the past lives. Whatever happiness we you know, we experience we experience as in this life come from come from only good karma, not from non virtuous action or indifferent action, not only from good karma.
So, so you can see that dharma is the only way the real answer for happiness is only dharma. Others others what is taught in the world, university, college, all rest of the other educations and other skills, all other things just even they help, but it’s just condition. So without good karma dharma, you can’t really have happiness. And it’s no way. Impossible.
Impossible. So this is impossible. Just like the from raisin, you plant sweet raisin, chili that chili doesn’t grow from that. By planting chili, the raisin doesn’t grow from that. So it’s like that.
So, it’s all dependent on cause, you know. It works dependent on rice. From the hot coarse, there is a seed that was hot then, result hot, you see that. Cause the seed with sweet nature then result sweet. Not all that, achieving liberation from saṃsāra, there’s no other way except on the dharma.
Achieving enlightenment for sentient beings, oneself to achieve enlightenment, to be able to liberate a number of sentient beings from the oceans of saṃsāra and enlightenment is only from Dharma. Therefore, our self learning become so essential and then cause numberless others and help the numberless others in them to make Dharma to practice, to learn make help them to learn Dharma to practice. So now here you can see how most important thing, most important service to a sentient being, benefit to a sentient being, there’s nothing else. There’s nothing other more beneficial than that. Benefits other than than than you see helping to meet Dharma, to learn Dharma, practice Dharma, it’s a liberation enlightenment.
Helps helps other than that. It’s good but it’s helps other than that doesn’t really doesn’t remove the cause of the sufferings. Helps other than that doesn’t remove. Without dharma, other helps cannot remove the cause of their sufferings. So then they constantly suffer.
So that’s, of course, one should, of course, we should, one should, whatever one can, one should help others. That even temporal happiness, whatever one can, you know, Even with the material conditions to help us, whatever we wish to help. But without dharma, can dharma, nothing can remove the cause of suffering. Therefore, that Dharma become the most important service to others. And so that’s why the center is for.
But then the issue of the center become very important, meditation center. Then here takes a very very important role. Yeah. Where something a place range where where the teacher is there then all that They need many people to organize, many who are doing different jobs. Need director, secretary, and the people doing different, taking different responsibility that we need.
So, place to teach Dharma, place before sentient beings to practice Dharma, to learn to practice Dharma, to purify, to collect meditate. So that’s it. So that’s all. I’ll do thank thank you thank you to thank you to everybody. Mhmm.
We’re going to protect our prayer. Protect our prayer. Yeah. Including the Hayagrīva. The prayer and the to protect us.
Success are the center to the most beneficial. And as individual as individual persons, whatever, And they wish to accomplish and then to those. And to be able to construct five hundred millimeter statue as good as possible. And to continue without obstacle to able to complete and to be most beneficial for us and to be able to enlightenment as good as possible. Most precious bodhicitta, conventional and ultimate bodhicitta in everyone’s heart.
Everyone’s heart caused the bodhicitta and then bring so that bring so much peace and happiness in this world. Global peace and happiness as well as the individual beings in their life, peace and happiness. So that no economic problems or those All the yeah. And then as all the rest of the projects and success, trace all the needs for that. Then, of course, as well as as soon as all the holy wishes to be actualized immediately.
So can we just begin with we’ll begin the These arise in the heart of all the sentient beings and in particular, in the heart of everyone in this world. And chiefly, in particular, in the heart of all the leaders of world and in the heart of all the terrorists and the people who wish to harm others, to generate bodhicitta without even a second. And in those hard Buddhism, made to increase. That we have all this that we have incredible opportunity to practice Dharma by Dharma other than complete Dharma without missing. And this is basically the lamrim, integration of all the heart of Buddha.
That’s I think due to that’s completely created by kindness with so that plan for stay alive on the holy wish to succeed immediately. Didn’t put it. Lama Yeshe was kind of the oldest founder of this center. And all the holy wishes that had them to be actualized exactly. Then to have a to have life and to be able to benefit also.
Must have a lot of sun khaba. They’re showing the same quality. As matter as as I mentioned before. The eye, the placenta are to be most beneficial also. As I mentioned before, it will be most beneficial to us and living like that.
The all whatever projects, plan, whatever to be succeed. And to be succeed, then to receive all the needs for, say, to benefit of sentient beings and serve the teaching of the Buddha. As well as all the rest of the famous famous senders, same to be most beneficial. Listen to him and the teaching of Buddha. And all the projects, whatever.
It’s enhanced immediately made with this is what needs for that. The Dharma sangha sangha They made a a five hundred millimeter statue, made a construct made a made a constructed as quick as possible. They couldn’t complete without the obstacle. And then about in this world, in the middle of the descent, it will be most of the tools in the middle by receiving all the findings, all the needs. Then same all the rest of the process to be exercised without an obstacle to save all the needs for that.
And the other three time merit collected by by others whose name is given to me. My promise broke alive and those who died. And then all the student passed away up to now. A number of settlements hum with animals. Made the image a little bit from all the sentient beings, reborn in the pure land where they can immediately attain enlightenment by abandoning the ordinary body, by making the mind the mind where they took rebirth was possible.
But once I’m hearing somebody is sick, so somebody sick, just by that, may cause the immediate get recovered and as soon as possible. Sam, seeing somebody died and saw somebody died, heard somebody died, caused immediate to be born in pure land where they get suddenly became enlightened. And those people whose names given to me, sick people, all those those, say, immediately recovered from all those sicknesses have a long life, exercise bodhicitta as well as possible then that way, in a meaningful life and achieving as well. These are the past. Personal, vision management, three higher management, hundred brothers, one sort of family members, or the student benefit of doing this organization.
I expect those who give up their lives to organization during service. Buddha teaching of Buddha, may all of us have a long life and to be healthy. All the wishes may succeed immediately In this very lifetime without delay in a second. Three nine made it clear about this. That was exist, but which do not exist from the side.
We just totally empty. May I. May I who exist but do not exist from their side, which is totally empty. Achieve high growth enlightenment which exists, but which doesn’t exist from their side, which is totally empty.
Lead all the sentient beings who exist but who do not exist from their side, who are totally empty, to achieve enlightenment which exists but which doesn’t exist from their side, which is totally empty. By myself alone, who exists but who does not exist from their side, who is totally empty. And then the hearts of everyone everyone in this world. Thank you very much.