Lecture 1

• The purpose of reciting prayers and practices
• Mind is the creator of happiness and suffering
• Compassion and bodhicitta

Lecture 2

• Preparatory practices to develop bodhicitta
• Continuity of consciousness and the definition of death
• Three divisions of impermanent phenomena
• Consciousness
• Existence of past and future lives

Lecture 3

• Reincarnation
• Karma
• Consciousness, delusions and samsara are beginningless
• Possible to end samsara

Lecture 4

• Samsara is suffering
• Need to break the continuity of the aggregates
• Suffering of the six realms
• Even arhats cannot do the work of Buddha
• The kindness of the mother

Lecture 5

• Meditation on sentient beings as one’s mother
• Meditation on the kindness of the mother
• Meditation on the kindness of all sentient beings as the mother

Lecture 6

• The suffering of mother sentient beings
• Meditation on the four immeasurables
• Buddha’s perfect power, omniscience and compassion
• Generating bodhicitta

Lecture 7

• Three levels of refuge
• Levels of motivation
• Meditation on the great will, bodhicitta
• Consciousness has no beginning or end
• Samsara can be finished
• Renunciation and entering the path of merit
• Five paths to nirvana

Lecture 8

• How delusions can be removed, emptiness
• The Mahayana five paths
• Enlightenment, the four kayas
• Quality and lineage of the lam-rim  

SECTION TWO: LECTURES 9-13

Lecture 9

• Meditation on the four immeasurables
• Lineages of the lam-rim
• Three ways of giving commentaries
• How to practice lam-rim as a householder

Lecture 10

• How to listen and meditate on the lam-rim
• lam-rim commentary has four basic outlines
• Story of Lama Atisha
• The three Kadampa lineages
• Four qualities of the lam-rim

Lecture 11

• No contradiction in the Buddha’s various teachings
• Buddha’s teachings cannot be changed
• Negative karma of discriminating Dharma

Lecture 12

• Importance of motivating each day
• Buddha taught to suit various levels of mind
• Three particular qualities of the lam-rim

Lecture 13

• Important to understand and practice the complete lam-rim
• How to listen to and explain the Buddhadharma
• Worldly friends are unreliable

Lecture 14

• Visualization for reciting the refuge prayer
• Training the mind in strong motivation
• Benefits of extensively listening to Dharma
• How to plan your daily lam-rim meditations
• Why lamas listen again and again to lam-rim teachings
• Second outline: respecting the Dharma and teacher
• Five points of listening to the teachings
• Serkong Rinpoche

SECTION THREE: LECTURES 15-20  

Lecture 15

• Taking refuge in Guru, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
• Third outline, how to explain the Dharma
• Six recognitions

Lecture 16

• The four immeasurables
• Listening to and understanding the Dharma
• Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche and Serkong Dorje Chang

Lecture 17

• Need to practice continuously for a long time
• The six recognitions
• Dharma is the mirror of the mind
• Prince Moon and Sudhasa’s son

Lecture 18

• Listening to the Dharma
• Explaining the Dharma, four outlines
• The importance of dedicating merits

Lecture 19

• Importance of guru devotion
• Six preparatory practices
• What to do in the meditation session and break times
• Yoga of sleeping

Lecture 20

• Refuge prayer with visualization
• Everything is created by the mind and karma
• Taking care of one’s own mind
• Creating karma with powerful objects, the Triple Gem and parents
• The importance of each day’s attitude
• The four motivations  

SECTION FOUR: LECTURES 21-26

Lecture 21

• The outlines on how to follow the guru
• Meditation on the perfect human rebirth, eight freedoms and ten richnesses

Lecture 22

• Meditation on the ten richnesses

Lecture 23

• Precepts: Mahayana ordination
• Getting a general understanding of the lam-rim outline
• The fundamental realization: refuge and karma
• Meditating on the eight freedoms and ten richnesses
• The three advantages of the perfect human rebirth
• The pure lands

Lecture 24

• Advantages of the perfect human rebirth
• How it is possible to attain nirvana and enlightenment
• The great yogi, Milarepa
• One can achieve anything with this perfect human body
• Bearing hardships for Dharma

Lecture 25

• Mahayana Precepts
• How infinite merit is accumulated
• Generating faith in Buddha’s teachings
• Relating to the Dharma
• Meditation on the preciousness of the perfect human rebirth

Lecture 26

• The four wrong conceptions, clinging to the four attachments
• The preciousness of the perfect human rebirth
• Making this human life meaningful
• How to practice the path to enlightenment
• The importance of bodhicitta  

SECTION FIVE: LECTURES 27-33

Lecture 27

• The path of the middle capable being
• How samsara is created by karma and disturbing unsubdued mind
• The root and secondary delusions
• The nature of attachment, binding us to samsara

Lecture 28

• Should not be complacent
• Karma, shortcomings of heresy and anger
• The difference in numbers of humans and creatures
• Watch the daily attitude

Lecture 29

• Meditation remedies to attachment
• Shortcomings of desire and attachment
• Shantideva’s advice on giving up attachment to the body

Lecture 30

• Having a meaningful attitude
• Samsaric works are never finished
• Dharma work has an end: enlightenment
• The evil thought of the eight worldly dharmas

Lecture 31

• Remedies to attachment to others’ bodies

Lecture 32

• The evil thought of worldly dharma

Lecture 33

• Shantideva’s reasoning, techniques to control attachment
• Reading from Bodhicaryavatara, Meditation chapter
• How to meditate on the remedies to attachment
• Controlling attachment to food
• Renunciation is in the mind
• Anger

SECTION SIX: LECTURES 34-39

Lecture 34

• Mahayana Precepts
• Death can happen at any time
• The evil thought of worldly dharma
• Holy Dharma and worldly dharma cannot be mixed
• Holy Dharma is defined by renunciation

Lecture 35

• Shortcomings of anger
• Importance of controlling anger and developing patience
• Geshe Chengawa’s four methods for controlling anger
• Gen Jampa Wangdu’s story

Lecture 36

• The shortcomings of the evil thought of worldly dharma
• How the eight worldly dharmas disturb our happiness

Lecture 37

• Geshe Chengawa’s four methods for controlling anger
• Seeing the enemy as guru and oneself as disciple
• Seeing everything as a dream
• Pride

Lecture 38

• The eight worldly dharmas
• Verses by the Tibetan yogi, Drokun Tsangba Gyadu
• Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings happiness
• Ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
• The four reliances

Lecture 39

• Overcoming pride
• Ignorance or unknowing
• Doubt
• Five wrong views
• The view of the changeable

SECTION SEVEN: LECTURES 40-44

Lecture 40

• The ten innermost jewels of the Kadampas
• The four reliances
• The meaning of “living in an isolated place”
• How ascetic yogis live
• The three vajras

Lecture 41

• The view of the changeable
• The extreme views of eternalism and nihilism
• Refuting a creator god
• Deluded beliefs
• Ignorance and the truly-existent “I”

Lecture 42

• Attachment
• “Taking the essence” retreat
• The ten innermost jewels

Lecture 43

• The disadvantages of disturbing unsubdued mind
• The importance of controlling delusions
• Karma

Lecture 44: Lama Thubten Yeshe

• Our nature is pure
• Attachment can be positive or negative
• Eight worldly dharmas can be positive or negative
• Have to overcome attachment slowly
• Practice of bodhicitta
• Renouncing grasping at temporary pleasures
• Necessary to have wisdom
• Question and answer

SECTION EIGHT: LECTURES 45-47

Lecture 45

• Mahayana Precepts
• This perfect human rebirth is very rare and short
• Time of death is uncertain
• Death is definite
• The ten innermost jewels: receiving the line of the devas
• Importance of realizing impermanence and death
• Dying, transference of consciousness

Lecture 46

• What to practice at the time of death
• The practice of giving and taking
• The experience of dying
• Intermediate stage
• The twelve links

Lecture 47

• The right view
• Merely labeled I, body and mind
• Recognizing the object of refutation
• The four analyses, a concise meditation

Chenrezig Initiation

• Motivation
• Pervasive compounded suffering
• Disadvantages of self-cherishing
• All happiness comes from bodhicitta
• The preciousness of each sentient being
• The six-syllable mantra
• Story of Gelongma Palmo