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
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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Be Brave for Liberation
Lama Yeshe advises students to avoid extremes and abide in meditation with intensive awareness in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given in Italy, September 1983.
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Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
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
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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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Long Retreat
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Long Retreat
Before Starting Three-Year Retreat
Completion of Three Year Retreat
Completion of Three-Year Vajrayogini Retreat
Continue With Lamrim in Long Retreat
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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
Lamrim Retreat
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
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Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Lamrim Retreat
Basic Program and Lamrim Retreat
Lamrim Retreat Advice
Lamrim Retreat at Lawudo
Numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Love You
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The Purpose of Retreat Is to Subdue Our Mind (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
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Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
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
Retreat Advice
Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.
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Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Advice for Group of Retreatants
Advice for Seven-Month Retreat
Building a Retreat House
Continue With Loose Retreat
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One Big Love
A talk by Tenzin Ösel Hita on unconditional love and how to practice Dharma.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
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.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
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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