Actualizing the Perfection of Patience
Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
Teachings
Feeling Suicidal
Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
Child Depressed and Suicidal
Contemplating Suicide
Depression After Best Friend Passed Away
Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
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Offering Service to the Guru
Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.
Offering Service to His Holiness
Pleasing the Guru
Recitations for Rinpoche’s Health and Long Life
Service to the Guru is the Best Offering
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Obstacles to Guru Devotion
Advice on how to train the mind in guru devotion, and what to do when we have negative thoughts, criticize the guru and see faults in the guru.
Advice on Guru Devotion for Student Having Difficulties
Angry With the Teacher
Conflict with Lamas
Difficulties with One's Guru
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Confession to the Guru
Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru. This advice was given to students confessing mistakes.
Confessing Mistakes
Confessing Negative Thoughts
Confessing a Mistake
Confession and Purification with Thirty-five Buddhas Practice
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Advice on Depression
Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Advice and Practices for Depression and Long Life
Advice on Transforming Depression
Balloon Mantras for Daughter's Depression
Battling with Depression
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Don't Be Shortsighted
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that Dharma practice needs continual effort for a long time in order to achieve liberation and enlightenment, in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions
Suicide Is Not the Solution
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
Desire and Attachment
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
A Vacation from Attachment
Attachment and Ordination
Attachment to a Good Reputation
Clinging to Worldly Pleasure
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The Kindness of the Guru
Rinpoche discusses the kindness of his own guru, Lama Yeshe, and the many Dharma centers that have been established as a result of Lama Yeshe’s energy and inspiration.
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion
Seeing the Guru as Buddha
Rinpoche discusses the guru-disciple relationship, why we need a guru and the qualities and kindness of the guru.
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion
Correctly Following the Guru
Advice and many quotations on how to correctly devote to the virtuous friend with thought and action, given to students of FPMT's Masters Program.
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion
The Remedy to Depression Is a Good Heart and Purification (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression
Anger
Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
LYWA Multimedia: The Manifestation of Enlightened Activities of a Perfect Guru
Read online or download this book, a collection of anecdotes about the life of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and how he works day and night, without stopping, for the benefit of all sentient beings..
Topics:
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion