The Power of the Object
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
Teachings
The Benefits of Offering to the Buddha
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
The Importance of Offering to Holy Objects (Video)
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
Daily Practice Advice
Advice on daily practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for students on the path to enlightenment.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
Offering Practices
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Benefits of Offering Gold to Buddha Statues
Circumambulating and Offering Music to Holy Objects
Flower Offering Card
How to Dedicate a Money Offering
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Restarting Daily Practice
Advice to students about restoring their daily practice after it has lapsed.
Dharma Practice Stopped After Disrobing
How to Restart Practices After Stopping
The Most Important Practice
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How To Do Daily Practice
Daily Practice Advice: Lamrim, Guru Yoga, Sleeping Yoga
Daily Practice Advice: Mantra Recitation, Prostrations, Lamrim
Teachings on How to Do Daily Practice
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Advice for Daily Practice
Extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on which practices should be done daily.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
Chapters:
Preliminary Practices
Lamrim Meditations and Deity Practice
Essential Daily Practices
Why I Give These Preliminary Practices
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The Mandala Offering
The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
Dedicating the Merit
How to purely dedicate the merit for the happiness of others
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
Life Practices
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices
OM AH HUM Meditation
This meditation is an excerpt from a weekend seminar on death, intermediate state and rebirth that Lama Yeshe taught in Switzerland in September 1983.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices