A comic-strip artist
in
Mexico leaves the CD of Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the
Sanghāta playing loudly and continuously when he goes out, so the
animals in the
environment can benefit from hearing it. Have others
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In the Words of the Sanghāta:
The Blessed One said: “Sarva-shúra, likewise
this Sangháta sutra dharma-paryáya is also difficult to
find. Sarva-shúra, anyone whose ear this Sangháta
dharma-paryáya falls upon will recollect past lives for eighty
eons. For 60,000 eons, they will attain wheel-turning kingship. ..."
- Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra
Things to Do with the Sanghāta
Driving in the Car with the Sanghāta
- Ven. Holly
reports on an afternoon with Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the Sanghāta:
One day before he was to begin a major retreat, Lama
ZopaRinpoche
said he would like to go shopping, so we all piled into the
car and
drove the
30-minute drive to the local department store. Halfway down,
Rinpoche's attendant Ven.
Roger asked
Rinpoche what we were shopping
for. Rinpoche explained that he was shopping for a
particular
kind of
jar to catch the bugs that gathered around the stupa in Rinpoche's
yard. It
had to be not too tall, not too
small,
not too thin, so that it wouldn't harm the bugs when they were put
inside. As
we drove down we had the CD of the Sanghāta
Sūtra
lung (oral
transmission)
playing full blast, Rinpoche sitting bolt upright, hands in the mudra
of
prostration the whole time, window open (so the insects outside would
be able
to hear the lung)
even though it was actually snowing outside. Two deer
ran
across the road, and Rinpoche was extremely pleased, as they may have
heard four
words of the Sanghāta
Sūtra.
To get CDs or audio mp3 files of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
reciting the Sanghāta, click here.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting to a horse and a mule (and
some sentient beings in the human realm, not pictured) in the Land of
Calm Abiding retreat center in California. 2002.
