Teachings from the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Chin-liang, Taichung County, Taiwan (Archive #1344)

These recordings are from teachings given during the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat in Taiwan in February-March 2001.

Click on the links above to listen to each section and read along with the unedited transcript.

Rejoicing, Dedications, Food Offering

[Rinpoche chants Limb of Prostrations in Tibetan.]

So now I’m not going to give any more explanation, because it would take time, so do ?basic explanations later, in the afternoon. In regards some of the mistakes that, anyway, so later.

[Rinpoche says something “Best music,” “Maybe some strong person can do, make offering, because it’s huge.”]

[Translator and another woman have a lengthy conversation in Taiwanese followed by applause.]

[Rinpoche chants Limb of Offering, long mandala offering, brief mandala, inner mandala; Limb of Confession, Rejoicing in Virtue.]

Rejoice your past, present, feel happiness, all your past, present, future merits.

[pause]

Now offering the happiness, past, present, future merits collected, numberless merits collected by others, buddhas, bodhisattvas, then there’s all the sentient beings.

/for the benefit of all sentient beings.

[Rinpoche chants in Tibetan, then recites Dharani of Immaculate Morality, Four Immeasurables three times, Departure of the Merit Field, meditation on the self-generation, Offerings to the Self-Generation, Blessing the Rosary, Mantra Recitation (with addition of longest Chenrezig mantra).] [mantra recitation]

/collected by me, by others, may the bodhicitta be generated within one’s own mind, which is the source of all the happiness, success for oneself, for all sentient beings, may it be generated within one’s own mind, in the minds of one’s family members and in the minds of all the sentient beings. That which is generated may it be increased without delay even a second.

Jang chhub sem chhog rin po chhe….

Due to all the past, present, future merits collected by me , three-time merits collected by others, may all the father, mother sentient beings have happiness, may the three lower realms be empty forever, may all the bodhisattvas’ prayers be succeed immediately. May I be able to cause all this to happen by myself alone.

Pha ma sem chän tham chä de dang dän….

Due to all the three-time merits collected by me, collected by others, that which are empty, may the I, who is also empty, achieve Compassion Buddha’s enlightenment, which is empty, and lead all these sentient beings, who are empty, to that enlightenment, which is also empty, by myself alone, who is also empty.

Gang ri ra wäi khor wä zhing kham dir….

Päl dän la mäi ku tshe tän pa dang….

Jam päl pa wö ji tar khyen pa dang….

Dü sum sheg päi gyäl wa tham chä kyi….

Dedicate the merits for the long life of the virtuous friend, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, all the holy wishes to be succeed immediately. Then Jam päl pa wö, after that, Jam päl pa wö…. Then after that Chhö kyi gyäl po….

[Rinpoche chants Chhö kyi gyäl po…. And Dag dang zhän gyi dü sum dang… in the background of Chinese translation.]

Chhö kyi gyäl po tsong kha päi….

Dag dang zhän gyi dü sum dang….

[Loud feedback]

It’s time to ?over.

So we make food offering.

The purpose of my life is to free all the sentient beings from all the sufferings and bring them to enlightenment, therefore I must achieve enlightenment, therefore I’m going to do, practice the yoga of eating, making food offering, making charity to all sentient beings.

I, action of making charity, making offering, yoga of eating, object, food, so forth, all the phenomena, what they are is what is merely imputed by the mind. So therefore, everything are empty. Therefore, everything what appears something real from their own side are totally, they all are totally hallucination, totally nonexistent, empty.

Exist in mere name, merely imputed by the mind.

They’re unified with emptiness and dependent arising, all the phenomena, how they exist is being unified with emptiness and dependent arising.

So now think, as all the food in the kitchen are empty, then one label extended jeweled container appeared and labeled nectar, yeah, the syllable BHRUM appeared, then that is transformed in extended jewel container. Then OM appeared and that is transformed into, melted in the light, white light, and transformed.

So the wisdom understanding emptiness manifested in syllable BHRUM, then extended jewel container. Like that and then syllable OM, light, OM melted in the white light, became the oceans of uncontaminated transcendental wisdom nectar.

So like that, numberless, also we bless not only them but we bless all the offerings here. All the lights, all the offerings here, then we offer all together.

[Rinpoche chants Offering Cloud Dharani three times and The Power of Truth.]

So numberless buddhas abiding in ten direction, they already received by the power of mantra, skies of nectar offerings, they received already.

We put, both hands put prostrate to all the merit fields while we’re making offering, prostrate and make offering.

So we offer all the offerings here, that which is nature of bliss, then also offer nectar food offerings, oceans of nectar food offerings, we offer to the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig by thinking of the guru, with the guru yoga mind we offer and as well as all the merit fields.

Next, we offer all the offerings here, all the oceans of nectar offerings to all the ten-direction Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, who are, whose essence is the guru.

Now we offer all these offerings and the oceans of nectar offerings, numberless of them, we offer to the ten-direction statues, stupas, scriptures, thangkas, who are, whose essence is the guru.

Now we offer, now we make charity, we make charity to every hell being, every hungry ghost, every animal, every human being, every sura, asura beings, every intermediate state beings.

They all fully enjoyed, liberated, they all become enlightened.

We’ve collected many skies of merits by making offering to all the buddhas, ?receiving the blessing, we collected limitless skies of good luck, merit, by offering to Compassion Buddha and the rest of the merit field, we collected limitless skies of merit by offering to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. We collected limitless skies of merit by offering to the, four times limitless skies of merit by offering to the statues, stupas, scriptures, thangkas, that which are in all the directions. Then we collected limitless skies of merit by offering, making charity to all sentient beings, then also by prostration all of them we collected so many times limitless skies of merit.

By generating bodhicitta motivation collected limitless skies of merit.

?Should ?have mentioned that before, but I forgot.

So due to all these merits collected now, all the past, future merits collected by me, three-time merits collected by others, may oneself, one’s own family members and all the student, benefactors in this organization and as well as all other sentient beings, may we never be separated away from the Triple Gem in all the lifetimes and always able to collect merit by making offering to guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and receive blessing of guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, within oneself, that which is the realization from guru devotion up to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, clear light, may it be actualized within one’s own mind and in the minds of one’s own family members, in the minds of all the students, benefactors in this organization, as well as all sentient beings, without delay even a second.

Last dedication, Due to all the past, present, future merits collected by me, the three-time merits collected by others, that which are merely labeled by the mind, may the I, who is merely labeled by the mind, achieve Compassion Buddha’s enlightenment, which is merely labeled by mind, and lead all the sentient beings, who are merely labeled by mind to that enlightenment, which is merely labeled by mind, by myself, alone, who is also merely labeled by the mind.

La ma sang gyä la ma chhö….

Dag sog khor chä tshe rab tham chä du….

Shei, shei. [Rinpoche says something else in Chinese].