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
Various Transitions
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
Celebrating a Birthday
Continuing With School
Making Life Decisions that Benefit Others
Sunflowers for the Elderly
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This Life Can Stop at Any Time
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
We Need Mindfulness to Ascertain Impermanence
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Prayers for Peace
Advice and prayers for peace, harmony and happiness in countries experiencing conflict.
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.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Prayers and Practices for the Deceased
Advice on practices to benefit those who have passed away.
Creating Merit For Future Lives
Daily Sur Practice for Deceased Person
Death on TV
Help at the Time of Death
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Signs of Death
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
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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The Cycle of Death and Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
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Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
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.
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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
We Should Not Be Afraid of Death
A public lecture on the death process, the intermediate state and rebirth, given by Lama Yeshe in Sweden on September 8, 1983.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
Practices at the Time of Death
Essential advice and practices for the moment of death.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death