Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
Teachings
How to Bring Up Children
Advice about parenting, relationships and work-life balance.
Topics:
Family and Relationships
Chapters:
Introduction
1. How to Be a Good Mother
2. How to Bring Up a Child
3. How to Find a Suitable Partner
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Meditation Is Action
Lama Yeshe discusses the benefits of meditation practice in this teaching given at Manjushri Institute in September 1976.
Be Brave for Liberation
Lama Yeshe advises students to avoid extremes and abide in meditation with intensive awareness in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given in Italy, September 1983.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Meditation on the Clarity of Mind
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
Visualizing Yourself as a Deity
Lama Yeshe discusses tantric meditation experience in this teaching excerpt from A Commentary on the Yoga Method of Divine Wisdom Manjushri.
The Purpose of Retreat Is to Subdue Our Mind (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Advice for Young People (Video)
In this video extract, Rinpoche advises that it is most important for young people to learn Dharma, to learn about the mind. Equally important is practicing the good heart, patience and contentment.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Advice on how to bring up children and make their lives meaningful.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting
Chapters:
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Raising Children With Bodhicitta
2. Making a Relationship Meaningful
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Separation and Divorce
Advice for students asking about separation and divorce. Rinpoche also discusses the suffering nature of samsara and the karma of relationship problems.
Advice for Separation
Breaking Up With a Partner
Decision on Whether to Divorce
Generate Compassion for Ex-Husband
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Long Retreat
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Long Retreat
Before Starting Three-Year Retreat
Completion of Three Year Retreat
Completion of Three-Year Vajrayogini Retreat
Continue With Lamrim in Long Retreat
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Lamrim Retreat
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Lamrim Retreat
Basic Program and Lamrim Retreat
Lamrim Retreat Advice
Lamrim Retreat at Lawudo
Numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Love You
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Disharmony in the Family
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
Caring for Sick Parents
Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.
Benefits of Caring for Our Parents
Caring for Elderly Mother
Caring for Mother
Caring for One’s Mother
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The Purpose of Having a Baby
This advice was given to students who asked Rinpoche whether they should have children or not. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having a good motivation and planning well so that the child can bring benefit and happiness to others.
A Beneficial Life
How to Raise a Child
Motivation for Having a Child
Not Able to Have Children
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