Editor’s Preface
1. Friday, October 26: Combined Jorchö and Lama Chöpa Puja
- Extensive offering practice
- Renewing the bodhisattva and tantric vows
- Samayavajra practice
- Rejoicing
- The Eight Verses
- Dedications
2. Friday, October 26: Retreat Preparation
- Motivation: impermanence and death
- Blessing of the seat
- Blessing of the body, speech and mind
3. Saturday, October 27: Discourse Before Medicine Buddha Preparation
- The solution is lamrim
- A letter to President Bush
- Four basic ways to help
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha practice
- Dedications for the retreat
4. Saturday, October 27: Preparation For Medicine Buddha Initiation
- Medicine Buddha preparation
- The false I
- How time exists
- Analyzing body and mind
- The root of samsara
- The dangers of self-cherishing
- Cherishing others
- Medicine Buddha preparation
- Dedications
5. Saturday, October 27: Medicine Buddha Session
- Simple visualization
- The power of mantra
- Counting mantras
- The main point
6. Sunday, October 28: Discourse Before Medicine Buddha Initiation
- Geshe Lama Konchog’s story
- The root of samsara
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Dedications
7. Monday, October 29: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Thirty-five Buddhas practice
- Making requests to the Medicine Buddhas
- Action Tantra mudras
- Making offerings
- Motivation for mantra recitation
- End of mantra recitation
- Tea offering to the protectors
- Dedications
8. Tuesday, October 30: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Thirty-five Buddhas practice
- Dedication of session
- Mudras with prostration verses
- Making offerings
- Seven-limb practice
- Meditating on emptiness
- Motivation for mantra recitation
- Tea offering to the protectors
- Dedications
9. Wednesday, October 31: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Meditating on emptiness
- Motivation for mantra recitation
- King of Prayers
- Dedications
- Benefits of holy objects
- Dedications
- The Bendigo Stupa
10. Thursday, November 1: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Requesting prayer
- Aspects of the Medicine Buddhas
- The nature of omniscient mind
- Benefits of holy objects
- Meditating on emptiness
- Motivation for mantra recitation
- Protector prayers
- Dedications
11. Friday, November 2: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- The power of compassion
- The causes of abuse
- The benefits of living in vows
- Dedications
- Using abuse to develop compassion
12. Saturday, November 3: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha practice
- Multiplying mantras
13. Sunday, November 4: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Motivation for Thirty-five Buddhas practice
- General confession
- Taking refuge
- Meditating on emptiness
- Form is empty
- Motivation for mantra recitation
- Divine pride and clear appearance
- Visualization during mantra recitation
- Meditations during mantra recitation
- The meaning of retreat
14. Monday, November 5: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Palden Lhamo
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha practice
- Dedications
15. Tuesday, November 6: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Dangers of wrong views
- The nature of mind
- The views of the four schools
- Dedications
16. Wednesday, November 7: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Motivation
- How the mind exists
- Teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom
- The Diamond Cutter Sutra
- Life in Solu Khumbu
- Benefits of The Diamond Cutter Sutra
- Dedications
- Tasting tsog on precept days
- Final dedications
17. Thursday, November 8: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Medicine Buddha’s prayers
- Making extensive offerings
- Medicine Buddha’s prayers
- Dedications
18. Friday, November 9: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Combining lamrim with sessions
- How dharmakaya manifests
- Piero’s story
- Wish-Fulfilling Golden Sun
- What makes an action virtuous or nonvirtuous?
- Dedications
19. Saturday, November 10: Combined Jorchö and Lama Chöpa Puja
- Extensive offering practice
- Dedications
20. Saturday, November 10: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Overcoming anger and ego
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha practice
- Tsog offering
- Protector prayers
- Dedications
21. Sunday, November 11: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Ceasing samsara
- The problem of desire
- Saving the lives of animals
- Dharma is the only solution
- Harming others
- Taking Mahayana refuge
- The four immeasurable thoughts
- Dedications
22. Monday, November 12: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- New York air disaster
- Identifying the object of ignorance
- The problems of desire
- Identifying the object of ignorance
- Dedications
23. Wednesday, November 14: Final Medicine Buddha Session
- Bodhicitta motivation
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha practice
- Dedications
- Break-time practices
24. Saturday, November 17: Combined Jorchö and Lama Chöpa Puja
- The importance of Lama Chöpa
- Gomo Rinpoche’s wisdom mother
- The importance of Lama Chöpa
- Extensive offering practice
- Taking bodhisattva and tantric vows
- Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas
- Rinpoche’s name mantra
- Dedications
- Mani pills
25. Saturday, November 17: Final Session
- Geshe Jampa Gyatso
- The protector issue
- Fire puja
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha retreat
