Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
Teachings
Meditation Is Action
Lama Yeshe discusses the benefits of meditation practice in this teaching given at Manjushri Institute in September 1976.
Meditation on the Clarity of Mind
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
Visualizing Yourself as a Deity
Lama Yeshe discusses tantric meditation experience in this teaching excerpt from A Commentary on the Yoga Method of Divine Wisdom Manjushri.
Handling Illness
Advice on how to use sickness on the path, especially through the practice of tonglen (taking and giving).
Beneficial Practices for the Sick
Experience the Suffering for Sentient Beings
Health Scare
How Fortunate You Are to Have This Sickness
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Transforming Pain
Advice on how to deal with pain by experiencing it for all sentient beings.
Change How We Think About Pain
Compassion and Tonglen
Creating the Karma to Stop Pain
Experience the Pain for All Sentient Beings
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Visualization
Advice on how to correctly visualize certain deities during one's meditation practice.
Practices at the Time of Death
Essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death
Meditation Practice
Bliss and Emptiness Meditation
Blissful Meditation Experience
Difficulties Meditating
Experience of Bliss
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Teachings Before Chöd Initiation (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Extracts from a series of teachings given prior to a chöd initiation
Chapters:
Healing Course continued (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Part Two of a series of teachings which are the basis for the book Ultimate Healing.
Chapters:
Transforming Problems; Using Criticism
The Power of Holy Objects
The Power of Compassion; Disciplining the Mind
The Importance of Compassion
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Healing Course (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Part One of a series of teachings which form the basis for the book Ultimate Healing
Chapters:
Rinpoche's Early Life
Benefits of Healing Practices
Purifying Disease; White Light Meditation
Equanimity
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Commentary on Chapter 8 of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara
A commentary on Chapter 8—the chapter titled "Meditation"—of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life)
Chapters:
Bodhicaryavatara Commentary: Index of Teachings
Section One: August 20th AM
Section Two: August 20th PM
Section Three: August 21st AM
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Integrating What You've Heard
An edited version of the earliest known recording of Lama Yeshe in the Archive, which was delivered to a group of Western students in January of 1972
Integrating What You've Heard (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
The earliest known recording of Lama Yeshe in the Archive, which was delivered to a group of Western students in January of 1972