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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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.
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Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
One Big Love
A talk by Tenzin Ösel Hita on unconditional love and how to practice Dharma.
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When the Bush Starts Moving
Tenzin Ösel Hita addresses a wide range of topics including education, masculinity, patience, discipline, jealousy and anger in this Dharma talk.
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Statues
Advice on how to care for and respect statues of the Buddha. Rinpoche advises that holy objects such as statues contribute to world peace and help us create believable merit just by seeing them.
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Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
Auspicious Welcome for Amitabha Buddha Statue
Benefactor Building a Statue
Benefits of Building a Statue of Padmasambhava
Buddha Statue on the Ground
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Travel and Immigration
Advice on matters related to travel and immigration, including how to think when traveling by plane and practices for removing visa obstacles.
Advice for Flying
Border Crossing to Nepal
Immigration Difficulties
Improving Dependent Arising: How to Eliminate Obstacles before Travel
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Educating the Heart
In this talk, Tenzin Ösel Hita discusses the inner values which enable us to live a meaningful, peaceful and harmonious life.
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The Yoga of Offering Food
How to make eating the cause of enlightenment for oneself and all other sentient beings. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.
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