Intention: Your Mental Attitude
Lama Yeshe discusses the middle way attitude.
Teachings
Realizing Universal Reality
Lama Yeshe presents the antidote to the fragmented, dualistic mind.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Caring for the Dying
Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
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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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Attitude to Work
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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Preparing for Death
Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.
Amitabha is Guiding You
Confession Before Passing Away
Death Can Happen Anytime
Death Can Happen at Any Time
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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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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
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
Impermanence and Death
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Topics:
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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Taking Care of the Mind
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Helping Others Prepare for Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the best way to help others prepare for death is by offering guidance when they have the capacity to understand and put Dharma into practice.
Support for the Dying: A Talk at Karuna Hospice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of providing support for people who are dying, so they can die with a happy and peaceful mind, free from fear and negative emotions.
A Meaningful Life
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
Various Transitions
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
Celebrating a Birthday
Continuing With School
Making Life Decisions that Benefit Others
Sunflowers for the Elderly
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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