Taking Care of the Mind
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
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Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Teachings
Kopan Course No. 42 (2009): eBook
In these teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. Now available as an ebook, The Path to Ultimate Happiness.
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Kopan Course No. 41 (2008)
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 41st Kopan Course. Includes a talk by Ven. Roger Kunsang on the beginnnings of FPMT.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 41: Index Page
Lectures 1 & 2: The Infallible Path
Lectures 3 & 4: Cherishing Others
Lectures 5 & 6: Causative Phenomena
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Kopan Course No. 40 (2007)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 40th Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 40 Index Page
1. The Concept of True Existence
2. Seeking Enlightenment
3. The Special Attitude
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Kopan Course No. 39 (2006)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 39th Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 39 Index Page
Lecture 1: The Best Psychology Is the Dharma
Lecture 2: How Things Exist
Lecture 3: The Cause of Samsara
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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
Kopan Course No. 38 (2005)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 38th Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 38 Index Page
1. The Kopan Experience
2. The Merely Imputed I
3. Actualizing the Path to Enlightenment
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Kopan Course No. 36 (2003)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditation Course, Nepal, in 2003.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 36 Index Page
Lecture 1: Universal Responsibility
Lecture 2: Golden Light and Arya Sanghata Sutras
Lecture 3: The Kindness of the Enemy
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Kopan Course No. 35 (2002): Audio and Unedited Transcripts
Excerpts from teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 35th Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Introduction and Motivation
The Need for Lamrim in Daily Life
Questions and Answers; Benefits of Holy Objects
Thought Transformation at the Time of Death; Identifying the Object to be Refuted
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000)
An edited transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000): Audio and Unedited Transcripts
Audio recordings and transcripts of the first five lectures by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Day 1: Introduction, Purpose of Meditation
Day 1: Emptiness of the I, Oral Transmissions of the Heart Sutra and Diamond Cutter Sutra
Day 2: The Nature of the Aggregates, Emptiness
Day 2: Emptiness, Oral Transmission of the Diamond Cutter Sutra
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000): Audio and Unedited Transcripts, Continued
Audio recordings and transcripts of Lectures 6-10, given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course.
Chapters:
Day 6: How Things Appear to Exist from their Own Side
Day 6: The Emptiness of the I: Not One-ness With Aggregates, Not Separate From the Aggregates
Day 6: What Exists is Merely Imputed by Mind
Day 7: Merely Labeled by Mind, Bodhicitta Meditation, The Kindness of Mothers
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Kopan Course No. 32 (1999)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 32nd Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 32 Index Page
1. The Essence of Buddhism is Compassion
2. Buddha Nature
3. The Thirty-Five Buddhas
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Kopan Course No. 31 (1998)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 31st Kopan Meditation Course.
Chapters:
Kopan Course No. 31 Index Page
1. Offering Practice
2. The Need for Great Compassion
3. The Root of Samsara
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Kopan Course No. 30 (1997)
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 30th Kopan Course in Nepal.
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