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
Prayer Wheels
Advice on prayer wheels, both large and small hand-held ones. Includes advice on the benefits, how to dedicate the merit after turning the prayer wheel, and how to construct and fill them.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A Prayer Wheel for the Ocean in Vietnam
A Prayer Wheel in the Ocean
Benefits of Prayer Wheels
Building a Universal Peace Wheel
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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.
Topics:
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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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
Blessings of the Relics
Advice on the power of relics, from which we receive blessings that bring us closer to enlightenment.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Relics > Blessings of the Relics
Benefits of Holy Relics
Benefits of Relics
Blessings from the Relics on Tour
Heruka Relic from Mount Kailash
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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
Stupas
Advice on the amazing benefits of building a stupa and circumambulating a stupa, as well as instructions on how to fill a stupa and make it beautiful and inspiring.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Circumambulations
A Powerful Place of Healing
Banners Are Essential in Stupa Construction
Benefits of Stupas
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Offering Practices
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Benefits of Offering Gold to Buddha Statues
Circumambulating and Offering Music to Holy Objects
Flower Offering Card
How to Dedicate a Money Offering
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A Meaningful Life
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
The Power of the Object
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
The Benefits of Offering to the Buddha
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Making Offerings
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.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Proper Respect for Dharma Texts (Video)
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to show respect to Dharma texts, including digital devices containing Dharma.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
Advice on Pilgrimage
Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Pilgrimage > Advice on Pilgrimage
A Piece of the Pure Land
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage
Amitayus Meditation at Maratika
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage
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