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
Teachings
Anxiety and Panic Disorder
Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and Strange Thoughts
Meditations for Anxiety
Overwhelming Fear and Anxiety
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Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Topics:
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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Acute Mental Illness
Advice and practices to benefit people struggling with a mental health condition.
Daughter with Anorexia
Eating Disorder
Hallucinations and Bizarre Behavior
Hearing Voices
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Addictions: Drugs and Alcohol
Advice for people who have struggled with drugs or alcohol. Rinpoche says that our life is precious and we should not waste it carelessly.
Breaking Drug Addiction
Giving Up Alcohol
Help for Drug Addicted Son
Practices for Drug Problems
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Broken Vows and Commitments
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder and Suicidal Thoughts
Major Bipolar Episode
Mantras and Prayers for Bipolar Disorder
Practices for Bipolar Condition
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Schizophrenia
Daughter with Schizophrenia
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Practices for Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia and Negative Thoughts
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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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Motivation for Mahayana Ordination
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments