Teachings from Guadalajara: Days 1 - 4 (Audio and Unedited Transcript)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008 (Archive #1700)

Days 1-4 of an eight-day series of lam-rim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Guadalajara, Mexico, in April, 2008.  You can listen to days 5-8 here.

You can also read an edited version of this series here, and listen online to the public talk that Rinpoche gave prior to this series.

Day 3: Dedications

...become _____. I repeated two times, I mean, not completely from the beginning, but, so there are some words I’ve forgotten. There are some similarity ones, so sometimes you get, there’s some very last parts, so I got upset with the text.

Okay, so, as the prayer says, all the that we collected by reciting the King of Prayers, so there it says, dedicate for all sentient beings, dedicate for all the lower realm beings, so it’s very important to all sentient beings, give the merits to all sentient beings, okay, all six realms and intermediate stage.

So, as I mentioned before, your own family members, those who have passed away, then, all the people who died in Tibet, and also the Chinese who have died, all those who are in such a heavy condition now, so, unbelievable heavy condition, and especially those who are injured, all these they don’t go to the hospital, because of the demonstrations so they don’t go to, stay at home. So very heavy, extremely heavy, and nobody can tell what is happening in Tibet, because no journalists allowed.

Then all the people who died, every day so many people who are dying in Iraq and all the rest of the world, okay, those who died or sick, died by cancer, all those sicknesses, all those people who have sickness, sick in hospital, at home, so we, this prayer is for everybody, okay.

And for everybody to achieve liberation, achieve enlightenment, okay, as quick as possible.

Due to all the past, present and future merits collected by me, and the three-time merits collected by others, may the bodhicitta be actualized in the hearts of oneself, one’s own family members, all of us here, in the hearts of all the students, all the benefactors, so many people in this part of the world, different parts of the world who sacrifice their lives to the FPMT organization, there are so many who give up their lives to this organization, to benefit for sentient beings, teaching of Buddha, bodhicitta to be actualized in all their hearts, and so many whom I promised to pray, and who rely upon me, and whose names are given to me, so, living or died, dead, in all those hearts, bodhicitta to be actualized, and in the hearts of all the leaders of the world, in the hearts of all the different religious people’s hearts, and everybody in this world, okay, as well as all sentient beings’ hearts without the delay of even a second. In whose heart bodhicitta is generated, may it be increased, okay?

Jang chhub sem chhog rin po chhe…. [3x]

Then we dedicate all the merits for His Holiness to have stable life, all the holy wishes to be succeed immediately, the second prayer is to succeed all His Holiness’s holy wishes, okay, so we pray all together, I mean, even if you don’t know the prayer but you just think that in your heart, okay? So everybody united, then it becomes very powerful.

Why we have all this incredible, unbelievable opportunity to practice Dharma, to meet Dharma, and have this perfect human rebirth, which has eighteen precious qualities, all these, then, all this, then, having created good karma in the past, so all this due to, then, having practiced Dharma in the past. So however, all this due to Buddha’s compassion, revealed Dharma, okay, so His Holiness is the embodiment of all the buddhas’ compassion, so that means he’s the one who does everything, okay, takes care of us sentient beings. So any good thing happening to us, every Dharma understanding we get, any good thing happening to us in our life is all from buddhas’ compassion, and that’s, His Holiness is the embodiment of all the buddhas’ compassion, so everything comes, from His Holiness. So His Holiness to have stable life, and all the holy wishes succeed immediately, pray that.

[Rinpoche chants the long-life prayer for HHDL in Tibetan, followed by the prayer for the fulfillment of HHDL’s wishes.]

[The students chant in Spanish as an offering to Rinpoche.]

Thank you. [pause]

Due to all the past, present and future merits collected by oneself, and the three time merits collected by others, just oneself and family members, and anybody who connected to oneself, the merely being in this universe, world, country, place or house, and all the sentient beings who are living in this universe, world, country, place or house, may their negative karma immediately get purified.

That means, simply being in this universe, yourself in this universe, world, country, place or house, then just being there, it benefit to sentient beings, what the benefit is then, immediately all the sentient beings living in this universe, world, country, place or house, their negative karma immediately gets purified, and then, they never get reborn in the lower realms, may they never get reborn in the lower realms, okay? And the, all their mental and physical problems, pacified immediately, all those sicknesses, spirit harms, all those things, and then the, they all find faith in Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and then karma, cause and effect, find faith, and actualize bodhicitta, and may they achieve, may everybody achieve enlightenment as quick as possible.

And, also, wars, famines, disease, torture, poverty, sicknesses, poverty has two: mental poverty and physical poverty, material poverty, and mental poverty is, poverty of Dharma, not understanding Dharma, not having Dharma, poverty, so, that’s the mental poverty and then there’s physical poverty, the poverty of means of living, materials, those material possessions. So, anyway, the poverty and spirit, then dangers fire, water, air, earthquakes, all these undesirable things happening in this world, wherever it’s happening, all these things, may it be stopped immediately. May nobody in this world experience this forever. [pause]

So this is simply being, just being, merely being in this universe, world, country, place, even the house, able to benefit like this, just yourself being there, benefit all the living beings, so naturally like that, and bring everybody to enlightenment.

Then due to all the past, present, future merits collected by me, and think, merits collected by others, numberless sentient beings, including bodhisattvas, and then, on top buddhas, okay, all these merits, so now, putting them all together it’s unbelievably powerful, which exists, but do not exist from its own side, which totally empty, all these merits, may the I, who exists, but who is totally empty from its own side, okay, achieve Lama Tsongkhapa’s enlightenment, which exists but which doesn’t exist from its own side, that which is totally empty, and lead all the sentient beings, who exist, but who do not exist from their own side, who are totally empty, to that Lama Tsongkhapa’s enlightenment, which exists, but which doesn’t exist from its own side, which is totally empty, by myself alone, who exists, but who totally doesn’t exist from its own side, who is totally empty. [pause]

So we do the lam-rim dedication. Der ni ring du….

Then, the general teaching of Buddha, particularly Lama Tsongkhapa’s teaching, may it be completely actualized in one’s own heart, in this very lifetime, and, in all the family members, everyone who is connected, then, in the hearts of all the students in the FPMT, and in all the hearts of the benefactors, in the hearts of all those, so many people in this world, abiding in different parts of the world who sacrifice their life to the organization, to benefit sentient beings, teaching of Buddha, in all their hearts, in the hearts of those who rely upon me, whom I promised to pray, whose names are given to me, in all of their hearts, and then, in the hearts of all the sentient beings, everybody in this world, in the hearts of everybody in this world.

Chhö kyi gyäl po tsong kha päi….

Dag dang zhän gyi dü sum dang….

There’s one, I’m not sure [speaks with someone in Tibetan]. What’s the name of the child who died? The baby. Somebody’s child died a few days ago, baby died before he was born, Estella Garcia Angullo, that’s the name, Estella Garcia Angullo, okay. So, due to all the past, present and future merits collected by oneself, all the merits collected by all the sentient beings, including the bodhisattvas, all the buddhas’ merits, okay, then, may this child who died, didn’t have the opportunity to come out and, however, to meet Dharma, to practice Dharma, however, then, who died in the womb, so, may this child, Estella Garcia Angullo, so, whether in the intermediate stage or born in the lower realms, wherever, may that child immediately get liberated from all those sufferings and reincarnate in a pure land of the buddha where he can, he or she can become enlightened there, in that life, so to born in those pure lands. If that’s not possible, to receive a perfect human body, and meet a perfectly qualified Mahayana guru, Mahayana teachings, and all the necessary conditions and actualize through listening, reflecting, meditation practice, then actualize the correct realizations, the whole path, the three principal paths, common path, the three principal paths; uncommon path, two stages, generation and completion stage, and achieve the embracing seven limbs, seven limbs including embracing, the Vajradhara, all the qualities, which has all these qualities, seven qualities, achieve as quick as possible, okay, so everybody pray strong this. [pause]

So, that’s it, so, good night, or good morning, good night. Thank you.