The Wisdom of Renunciation
Lama Yeshe discusses renouncing unrealistic grasping attitudes.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
Teachings
The Source of Satisfaction
Lama Yeshe explains that our experience of life is shaped primarily by the mental attitudes we cultivate.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
The Self-Cherishing Thought
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
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.
Topics:
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
The Suffering of the Lower Realms
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
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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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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Amulets and Blessing Strings
Four Dharmakaya Relic Mantras Amulet
Lama Atisha Protection Stupa
The Benefits of Blessing Strings
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Prayer Flags
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Benefits of Prayer Flags
Prayer Flag Protection
Prayer Flags and Banners
When to Hang Prayer Flags
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Texts
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Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Texts
Burning Holy Objects and Offering to Sangha
How to Bless Texts
Paranirvana Sutra
Printing Tse.do, the Long Life Sutra
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Tsa-tsas
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Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Tsa-tsas
Benefits of Making Tsa-tsas
Caring For Damaged Holy Objects
Dedicating the Merit of Making Tsa-tsas
Making Perfect Tsa Tsas in Retreat
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True Renunciation
Explaining how by overcoming attachment to ordinary pleasure, we open the way to the joy of inner liberation.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
Samsara is Only in the Nature of Suffering
We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
Self-cherishing Brings All Unhappiness
This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation
Samsara is Not a Pleasure Park
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.
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Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Renunciation