Lama Zopa Rinpoche

I think in the future I will ask her to go to the Land of Joy. 53 It will be good to get her to
bless the land. She did that at Mahamudra Centre in New Zealand and at Chenrezig Institute
in Australia the first time she went there. She did a retreat for seven days and everybody
cried for two days! Everybody cried.
At Chenrezig Institute they have done the Basic Program several times and were just starting
another round. 54 Some nuns have done the Basic Program several times. There are maybe
twenty-five or twenty-six nuns at Chenrezig—a lot of nuns—but not so many monks. Geshe
Tashi Tsering—not the Geshe Tashi in London but another one—was there for many years
and he was very kind, pushing the nuns to study a lot. He did this because in his life in the
monastery he saw the importance of studying and working very hard for the monastery, and
he saw that this was also true for Chenrezig Institute.
When Khadro-la went there, for the first two days everybody cried through her teachings as
she brought everybody’s mind into the Dharma. Then she went to Mahamudra Centre in
New Zealand and all two hundred students also cried for the first two days as she brought
their minds into the Dharma as well.
Now she is unable to travel for a year because she had a Tibetan yellow passport, 55 which is a
lot of trouble, so she gave that to the Indian Government and has applied for an Indian
passport, which takes a year. She could get the refugee paper back but I advised her to stay
there and try to get the passport.
At the moment we are so fortunate. We have this human rebirth, we have met Buddhism
and we can meet great beings like Khadro-la. So we are unbelievably fortunate.
In the “dream experience” Khadro-la received many teachings on emptiness from Kyabje
Trijang Rinpoche in his past life aspect. He told her that Dolgyal totally cheated him and this
has interfered with the activities of his present incarnation. Ling Rinpoche lives in India
quite publicly because he doesn’t practice Dolgyal but Trijang Rinpoche is sort of in hiding.
The guru appears in an ordinary form because of our impure mind
The tantric text Vajra Tent says,
In these degenerate times, I, who am called Vajrasattva, will abide in the form of the spiritual master.
With the aim of benefiting sentient beings, I will abide in an ordinary form.
In these times of the five degenerations, Vajrasattva, or Vajradhara—the names differ but
they’re the same being—has taken the holy form of the spiritual master, or guru, to abide in
an ordinary form in order to benefit sentient beings. We should understand this and generate
faith and respect for the guru. This is also mentioned in the Fifty Verses of Guru Devotion. 56
Once the bodhisattva Meaningful to Behold asked the Buddha, “When you, Guru
Shakyamuni Buddha, have passed away, who will there be to guide us?” To that the Buddha
replied, “Hi, Meaningful to Behold, when that time comes I will manifest in the form of an
abbot, a master, a lob-pön. In order to ripen the minds of sentient beings, in order to benefit
them, I will show the aspect of having birth, old age, sickness and death.”
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