Overcoming Obstacles
Advice and practices to remove obstacles to success.
Changing Feng Shui
Clearing Obstacles from the House
Eviction from Land
Feng Shui and Practices to Remove Obstacles
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Teachings
Intention: Your Mental Attitude
Lama Yeshe discusses the middle way attitude.
Realizing Universal Reality
Lama Yeshe presents the antidote to the fragmented, dualistic mind.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
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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Advice and Practices for Various Countries
Letters and advice sent to dignitaries and students regarding resolution of conflict and how to bring peace and happiness to the region.
A Healing Hut in Lahaul
A Letter to the King of Nepal
Advice for the Whole Country
Democracy in Hong Kong
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Attitude to Work
Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Attitude to Work
Bodhisattva Attitude
Motivation for Paying Tax
The Real Purpose of Our Life
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path in Business
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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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Buying and Selling Property
Advice and practices to remove obstacles and have success in the purchase or sale of house or land.
A Powerful Mantra for Success
Buying Land
Everything Depends on Karma
Obstacles to Sale of House
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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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Shopping with the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to integrate Dharma into our everyday life in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Silent Mind Holy Mind
The celebration of Christmas focuses on our longing for peace and deepest expression of love. Taking as his major focus the ways in which we customarily celebrate Christmas, Lama Yeshe exposes the foibles of our secular age and shows how we can surmount them.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Religious Tolerance
Chapters:
Silent Mind Holy Mind
Contents
Preface (by Nicholas Ribush)
Introduction (by Jonathon Landaw)
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Taking Care of the Mind
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
A Meaningful Life
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
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