A Favorable Human Rebirth
Teachings on the eight conditions most conducive to practicing Dharma, excerpted from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's The Perfect Human Rebirth: Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment.
Teachings
How to Bring Up Children
Advice about parenting, relationships and work-life balance.
Topics:
Family and Relationships
Chapters:
Introduction
1. How to Be a Good Mother
2. How to Bring Up a Child
3. How to Find a Suitable Partner
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Perfect Human Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 31, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that with a precious human body we have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment in one lifetime.
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.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Why This Human Body is Most Precious
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the perfect human rebirth in this teaching excerpt from the 36th Kopan Course. Rinpoche advises us not to waste this precious opportunity, as we have this human body for just a short time.
Freedom More Precious Than Skies Filled with Gold, Diamonds and Sapphires
In this unedited excerpt, Rinpoche encourages us to take advantage of this precious and rare opportunity to study the profound meaning of emptiness.
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Advice on how to bring up children and make their lives meaningful.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting
Chapters:
Joyful Parents, Successful Children
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Raising Children With Bodhicitta
2. Making a Relationship Meaningful
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Separation and Divorce
Advice for students asking about separation and divorce. Rinpoche also discusses the suffering nature of samsara and the karma of relationship problems.
Advice for Separation
Breaking Up With a Partner
Decision on Whether to Divorce
Generate Compassion for Ex-Husband
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Disharmony in the Family
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
Caring for Sick Parents
Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.
Benefits of Caring for Our Parents
Caring for Elderly Mother
Caring for Mother
Caring for One’s Mother
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The Purpose of Having a Baby
This advice was given to students who asked Rinpoche whether they should have children or not. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having a good motivation and planning well so that the child can bring benefit and happiness to others.
A Beneficial Life
How to Raise a Child
Motivation for Having a Child
Not Able to Have Children
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Bringing up Children
Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
A Good Education and a Meaningful Life
Advice on Educating a Child
Caring for a Child With Special Needs
Guiding Children to a Happy Life
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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.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
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.
Topics:
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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Parenting Problems
Advice on how to resolve parenting problems by focusing on the good heart, loving kindness and compassion for others.
Topics:
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Parenting Problems
A Bad Mother?
Abusive Teenager
Growing Up Too Fast
Negative Emotions, Broken Commitments and Ill-health
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