Healing Course (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Melbourne, Australia, 1991 (Archive #874)

The first part of a series of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tara Institute in Melbourne, Australia in August 1991. This series formed the basis for the book Ultimate Healing, published by Wisdom Publications.

The second part of the series can be accessed here.

Equanimity

So, before starting the discourse, going to do some of the meditation, some dedication generating the positive attitude. So in this subject, some things that you can understand then that you can think. Some things at the moment that you cannot understand then that can be just left, and some things that you are able to relate to or understand then can think that way, can generate this positive attitude towards others. [pause]

I rely upon to the fully enlightened omniscient one, the perfect guide, and the path that liberates oneself and everyone from all the suffering and the causes, which leads to ultimate happiness and the helpers, those who actualize the path that which does this, which gives this guidance or this functions, this benefits to oneself and all sentient beings.

I rely upon the perfect guide, the fully enlightened being, the compassionate one and the right path that which frees oneself and everyone from all the suffering and causes and lead to ultimate happiness. And the helpers who actualize this path within one's own mind and in the mind of others.

I rely upon the perfect guide compassionate omniscient one, who reveal the right path to every being, the path which frees oneself and all beings from all the problems and causes, which leads to ultimate happiness and then the helpers who actualize the path and who makes possible to actualize this right path, these right wisdoms or this right path within us sentient beings.

I rely upon the perfect guide compassionate one, who reveal the right path out of compassion to everyone; the right path, that which liberates oneself and all beings from all the problems, causes, which leads us to the ultimate happiness. And the helpers who actualize this path, that who helps, who makes possible to actualize this right wisdom, the right path within one's mind and others.

How wonderful it is if all the living beings if they, if they abide in equanimity. I jumped.

Due to all the positive actions that is done by me in the past, in the present, in the future. Due to all this merit may I achieve the highest happiness, the full enlightenment, and lead everyone to this the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment.

Due to all this positive imprint or the actions done by me in the three times, may I be able to achieve the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment, and lead everyone to this state. Due to all this positive actions and the imprint done by me that may I be able to achieve the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment, and lead everyone in this state.

Due to all this positive actions and imprint that I left, may I achieve the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment and lead everyone to this state. [pause]

How wonderful it is if all the sentient beings, all the living beings, if they abide in equanimity, the peace of mind that which is equanimity free from discriminating thought, the anger and dissatisfied mind, the attachment, which discriminates sentient beings, other living beings, far and close and which brings a lot of problems.

How wonderful it is if all the living beings, if they abide in peace of mind, the equanimity, stability of life and peace of mind, the healthy mind, healthy body being free from all the disturbing thoughts, the anger and the dissatisfied mind attachment which discriminates other living beings far and closer.

How wonderful it is if all the living beings to have the happiness in the heart, the peace in the heart, the mind being free from the discriminating, the disturbing thoughts, anger and dissatisfied mind attachment that which discriminates other living beings far and closer. That which brings many problems in the life, in one's own life and to other beings. [long pause]

So, if all the living beings, if their mind abide in equanimity, in this peace, then their mind is in the state of, in the positive state, in the peaceful state or happy state. So, therefore, out of this only positive actions, the peaceful actions, the virtuous actions or the peaceful, not disturbing, peaceful actions that which brings result only happiness to oneself and to others...

 

...happy state. So therefore, out of this only positive actions, the peaceful actions, the virtuous actions or the peaceful, not disturbing but peaceful actions that which brings result only happiness to oneself and to others.

So not just, not, not only the, not only not just only the disease. That is just one, that's just one tiny, the one just tiny like atom, like the atom, one atom from this table, just one atom or from this earth, one atom. So not just that, there are so many other things, there are so many other problems, so many kinds, mental and physical. So however, so by, all these where they come from is the mind. So therefore, by purifying the mind or by transforming the mind into positive like this, then it changes, one's own mind changes, with individual being's effort understanding, with individual being's wisdom and effort, with he or her own effort and wisdom then transforming the mind in the positive, the pure mind. So by developing that so more and more their actions become more and more pure, more and more, instead of disturbing or harming become more and more beneficial, deeper, deeper beneficial action to oneself and others.

So however, the healing, first of all one makes one's own mind healing mind, one transforms one's own mind from the mind that which producing all these, creates all these life problems then transform the mind from that into healing mind and then that healing mind produces healing action, then that brings result, healthy mind and healthy body. Completely pure, the ultimate healthy body and mind is completely pure mind and completely pure body, which is completely free from everything, all the problem, all the sufferings and causes. And then also one, with one's own healing mind and healing action able to heal others, all other living beings from all the problems and causes.

So this one is generating the immeasurable joyfulness towards everybody. Generating the immeasurable joyfulness with one's mind towards everyone. May they abide in this, in this equanimity, this peace in the heart. May they abide in equanimity. [pause] This immeasurable prayer. "I will cause" next one "I will cause them to abide in equanimity." So in other words taking responsibility upon oneself that not just simply sitting there and kind of being lazy, only wishing but doing nothing for others from one's own side or wishing somebody else to help them. Oneself doesn't do anything directly towards them.

So, just again, besides generating the positive wish, to cause happiness, others to have happiness, rather living the life with the prayer and with generating just a wish doing something practical, doing something more than that, leaving the wish or just praying others to have happiness. So taking the responsibility upon oneself that I'm going to cause everyone to bring in equanimity. In this state of peace, everyone's life, everyone's mind. So this is immeasurable special thought, thought that, special, why? Because it takes the responsibility, that you are taking the responsibility upon oneself so this thought is special. Special from just wishing, the thought that's wishing. Only wishing but not doing anything. [pause]

Please grant me, so oneself to be able to do this perfectly then rely upon the omniscient one, perfect guide, fully enlightened one who has omniscient mind, the completed perfect wisdom knowing everything, then, all the past present future, every single existence, knowing everything, everyone's mind and every method that to reveal to them, every method to bring them in happiness, from happiness to happiness to the highest happiness, full enlightenment. So who has this omniscient mind and compassion to everyone, who has completed the mind training in the compassion to every living being and the perfect power to bring everyone in happiness, especially the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment.

Then so at the moment since one cannot, one has the limitation of compassion to others, limitation of power to help others, limitation of wisdom to help others, so since oneself at the moment cannot do perfectly, so therefore by relying upon somebody who is perfect, who has completed all these qualities, by relying upon such a being, who has definitely power to help to receive all these qualities within us, so by relying upon these perfect beings, together, together whom one decide to rely upon such as this being and then this being giving guidance together then we can develop our omniscient mind, our perfect wisdom, we can complete our perfect wisdom and complete our compassion to everyone and power to help others, able to complete. So this way we can able to benefit others deeper and more extensive, more and more like this then, then afterwards without any mistake able to guide them perfectly. Bring them in the peerless happiness, the full enlightenment.

Please grant the, the kind, compassionate, the omniscient one to guide. Grant blessings all these qualities so that I can guide them. [long pause]

May they abide in equanimity. I will cause them to abide in equanimity. To abide, I will cause them to abide, them in this peace, in this state of peace, in the heart, which is the purpose of my life, which is the meaning of my life, doing this. So at the moment I have limitation of all these qualities so therefore, please grant blessings all these qualities, which is, which means all these qualities the kind compassionate omniscient one. [pause]

May they abide in equanimity, and I will cause them to abide in equanimity. And please grant me blessings the kind compassionate omniscient one to be able to perfectly guide others.

Yeah then, today in order to, since the purpose of my life is to free everyone, not just to solve my own problem and to obtain happiness for myself - it's not just for that. The purpose of my life, the purpose of my living in every day, in every hour, in every minute, in every second, the purpose of my breathing in all these times, living, that is very vast one like infinite sky. To free everyone, who like happiness who don't want, who don't like problems, those whose mind is obscured so therefore cannot experience the highest peace of mind, the completed peace of mind, the perfect state of peace, so the full enlightenment. So therefore to, to bring everyone to happiness, especially this peerless happiness full enlightenment, to be able to do this then I need to develop in this qualities, wisdom and method, compassion, these inner wisdoms, these inner qualities, the wisdom and compassion for everyone, and so forth. These inner qualities I need to develop, the path. [pause] In other words, the purpose of my life is to heal everyone's body and mind from all the problems, from every single problems and all the causes. And then to bring in the ultimate everlasting happiness, the definition of the ultimate healthy state, the perfect or the ultimate healthy state, the body and the mind that's free from, that which is free from every single danger.

So then, to do that then I need to develop my mind in these inner qualities, wisdom, inner wisdom and the method, the compassion, so forth. For that reason, and that which is the healing the mind, that which is a way of healing the mind. Then through this, then to do service for others, we need long life and also healthy body. So through this then we are also doing healing, through this also we heal as well as the body. So for this reason, in other words in order to benefit for, my life in order to benefit to everybody, for that reason I'm going to do this healing course.

 

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