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
How to Bring Up Children
Advice about parenting, relationships and work-life balance.
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Family and Relationships
Chapters:
Introduction
1. How to Be a Good Mother
2. How to Bring Up a Child
3. How to Find a Suitable Partner
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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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Separation and Divorce
Advice for students asking about separation and divorce. Rinpoche also discusses the suffering nature of samsara and the karma of relationship problems.
Advice for Separation
Breaking Up With a Partner
Decision on Whether to Divorce
Generate Compassion for Ex-Husband
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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.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
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
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
Disharmony in the Family
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
Caring for Sick Parents
Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.
Benefits of Caring for Our Parents
Caring for Elderly Mother
Caring for Mother
Caring for One’s Mother
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The Purpose of Having a Baby
This advice was given to students who asked Rinpoche whether they should have children or not. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having a good motivation and planning well so that the child can bring benefit and happiness to others.
A Beneficial Life
How to Raise a Child
Motivation for Having a Child
Not Able to Have Children
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Bringing up Children
Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
A Good Education and a Meaningful Life
Advice on Educating a Child
Caring for a Child With Special Needs
Guiding Children to a Happy 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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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Advice for Young People (Video)
In this video extract, Rinpoche advises that it is most important for young people to learn Dharma, to learn about the mind. Equally important is practicing the good heart, patience and contentment.
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Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Advice for Children
Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.
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Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
A Place for Children
Advice for a Young Student
Enjoy Your Life for Sentient Beings
Essence of Dharma
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