After Meeting Is Separation; After Birth Is Death
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Teachings
This Life Can Stop at Any Time
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
We Need Mindfulness to Ascertain Impermanence
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
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
The Cycle of Death and Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Impermanence and Death
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Death Can Come at Any Time
Death Can Happen Suddenly
Death Comes Suddenly
Death Comes at Any Time
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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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A Place for Children
Advice for a Young Student
Enjoy Your Life for Sentient Beings
Essence of Dharma
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Educating Children
Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.
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Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya
Dedication for Alice Project
Dharma Books for School Children
Dharma Education for Young Children
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Practices for Children
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Family and Relationships > Children > Practices for Children
A Daily Practice for Children
A Prayer for Children
How to Control Children So You Can Guide Them
Making Children’s Lives Meaningful
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Teenagers
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Family and Relationships > Children > Teenagers
Benefits of Daily Practice
Live Your Life with Bodhicitta
Practice Advice for a Teeenager
Sutra Recitation for Violent Teenager
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Illness and Death Are Natural
A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Dissolution
Teachings by Lama Yeshe on impermance and death, adapted by T. Y. Alexander
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche at LYWA October 2012 (Audio, Video and Transcript)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches via live stream to students in Singapore and around the world.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Impermanence
Life finishes quickly, like autumn clouds or lightning in the sky
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Certainty of Death
Death is definite and this precious human body is more valuable than a mountain of diamonds.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death