A Meaningful Life
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
Teachings
The Root of Samsara According to the Four Schools
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Emptiness
The Middle Way Between the Two Extremes
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist
Look at All Causative Phenomena as Illusory
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist
Prayers for Peace
Advice and prayers for peace, harmony and happiness in countries experiencing conflict.
Basic Buddhism Is Discovering Your Self (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that we live our entire life grasping at the real I, but in Buddhism we learn that the way the self appears is a total hallucination.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
The Messages on Rinpoche’s Car
In this short excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of having positive messages, mantras and Namgyälma protection on his car.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
How Realizing Emptiness of the Agent, Action, Result, Purifies Karma (Video)
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the wisdom realizing emptiness eradicates ignorance, just as a vacuum cleaner or broom removes dust.
Topics:
Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice
Business Crisis and Failure
Advice and practices for students experiencing problems due to a business downturn and related financial crisis.
Business Downturn
Business Downturn and Difficult Customer
Business Losing Money
Business Losing Money
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Unemployment
Advice on practices which may help remove obstacles for those who are unemployed and having difficulties finding work.
Arya Sanghata Sutra for Success in Finding Work
Buddha’s Name Mantra for Success
Can’t Find a Job
Looking for Work
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One Big Love
A talk by Tenzin Ösel Hita on unconditional love and how to practice Dharma.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
When the Bush Starts Moving
Tenzin Ösel Hita addresses a wide range of topics including education, masculinity, patience, discipline, jealousy and anger in this Dharma talk.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Untying the Beginningless Knot
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the merely labeled I in this excerpt from a teaching given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in 2012.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist
The Very Heart of Buddhism
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to meditate on emptiness in daily life in this excerpted teaching.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist