Intention: Your Mental Attitude
Lama Yeshe discusses the middle way attitude.
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Realizing Universal Reality
Lama Yeshe presents the antidote to the fragmented, dualistic mind.
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Practices for Life
Advice given to students who requested life practices. Rinpoche recommends essential daily prayers and practices to focus on for their lifetime.
Attitude to Work
Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.
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Bodhisattva Attitude
Motivation for Paying Tax
The Real Purpose of Our Life
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path in Business
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Shopping with the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to integrate Dharma into our everyday life in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
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Taking Care of the Mind
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
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A Meaningful Life
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
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The Messages on Rinpoche’s Car
In this short excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of having positive messages, mantras and Namgyälma protection on his car.
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Dorje Shugden
Advice given to students on the practice of Shugden (Tib: Dolgyal). This practice is strongly discouraged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
Meditations on Rejoicing
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these instructions on how to think during the section on rejoicing in Lama Chöpa at a retreat held in Bendigo, Australia.
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Why Rejoicing Is So Important
In this teaching Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that rejoicing is a simple way to achieve enlightenment. Rinpoche says rejoicing is a genuine feeling of happiness and joy, appreciating one’s own qualities and those of others.
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Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice
One Big Love
A talk by Tenzin Ösel Hita on unconditional love and how to practice Dharma.
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When the Bush Starts Moving
Tenzin Ösel Hita addresses a wide range of topics including education, masculinity, patience, discipline, jealousy and anger in this Dharma talk.
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Travel and Immigration
Advice on matters related to travel and immigration, including how to think when traveling by plane and practices for removing visa obstacles.
Advice for Flying
Border Crossing to Nepal
Immigration Difficulties
Improving Dependent Arising: How to Eliminate Obstacles before Travel
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Educating the Heart
In this talk, Tenzin Ösel Hita discusses the inner values which enable us to live a meaningful, peaceful and harmonious life.
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