salutary in that it not only counters all one's clinging to phenomena and engenders within oneself an attitude of freely giving, giving away all that one might think to lay claim to, but by offering them with such an attitude to the enlightened ones that one accumulates an infinite amount of merit. All of this merit serves to ready oneself, to ripen one's own being, to sustain properly all the advanced practices and insights I met with in the advanced stages of practice.

[01:04]

All right. Now, Rinpoche has recited the full, for us here tonight, the full version of the mandala offering prayer. There is a shorter form which we recite each Wednesday night when requesting him for the Lama Dey teachings. It is the first verse on page two, which goes, Sa Si Pu Chu, etc. And, in effect, it says that I offer the entire universe, the four continents which surround the Mount Sumeru and so forth and so forth, offering these to the enlightened one as a result or through

[02:20]

By offering this universe to the enlightened ones, may all beings... May all beings... Well, in effect, may all beings be established in the pure realm, or in the pure... Buddha fields. If I have some help in between now and the next section, we might be able to get some of these things translated or translated and Xeroxed for tomorrow's morning session, but I can't promise anything.

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