After Meeting Is Separation; After Birth Is Death
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Teachings
This Life Can Stop at Any Time
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
We Need Mindfulness to Ascertain Impermanence
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Cycle of Death and Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Peaceful Prison
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
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Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Taking Vows
Abandoning Harmful Actions
Benefits of Taking Vows
Morality Is Like the Earth
Motivation for Eight Mahayana Precepts
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Impermanence and Death
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Death Can Come at Any Time
Death Can Happen Suddenly
Death Comes Suddenly
Death Comes at Any Time
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Broken Vows and Commitments
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
Eight Mahayana Precepts (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Chapters:
The Direct and Unmistaken Method
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Chapters:
The Direct and Unmistaken Method
Translator’s Preface
The Benefits of Protecting the Eight Mahayana Precepts
The Way in Which the Mahayana Ordination Is Taken
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Illness and Death Are Natural
A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Motivation for Mahayana Ordination
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
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Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Dissolution
Teachings by Lama Yeshe on impermance and death, adapted by T. Y. Alexander
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at LYWA October 2012 (Audio, Video and Transcript)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches via live stream to students in Singapore and around the world.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Impermanence
Life finishes quickly, like autumn clouds or lightning in the sky
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death