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
Working at the Dharma Center: Bearing Hardship with a Happy Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to avoid burnout and maintain a happy mind while offering service at the center.
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
Motivation for Offering Service
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this inspiring talk at the European Regional Meeting in June 2014. Rinpoche teaches on the four immeasurables and the kindness of others, and advises why Western students need to actualize the path.
LYWA Multimedia: My First Trip to Lawudo, Summer 1973
In this multimedia title, Nicholas Ribush shares an account of traveling with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Lawudo, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
Offering Service
Advice and thanks given to students who have offered service and support for Dharma centers and projects in various roles.
Benefits of Karma Yoga
Clean Your Motivation
Continue Helping the Center
FPMT’s Purpose Is to Help Others
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Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Letters and cards thanking benefactors and students who have offered service to the Dharma in many different roles.
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Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
A Billion, Trillion, Zillion Thanks
A Billion, Zillion Thanks
A Billion, Zillion Times Thanks
A Burst Appendix
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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.
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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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Anger
Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger
Generosity and Charitable Projects
Advice on the practice of giving and letters of thanks to benefactors of Rinpoche's centers and projects.
Topics:
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Generosity and Charitable Projects
Charitable Projects in Ladakh
Donation to Amdo Eye Center
Helping a Business
Investing for Real Profit
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Pride
Fundraising
Erma Jam to Raise Funds For Lawudo
Fundraising With Strong Guru Devotion
Fundraising for Maratika Lama
Fundraising for Meditators
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The Path to Total Freedom
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions
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Birth of a Buddhist Publishing Company
An article by Nicholas Ribush about the growth of Tibetan Buddhist publishing in the West.
Don't Get Angry at the Stick
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Anger