Kopan Course No. 51 (2018): eBook

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Kopan Monastery, Nepal (Archive #2087)

These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 51st Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in November–December 2018. Transcribed and edited by Ven. Joan Nicell, and subsequently lightly edited by Gordon McDougall. 

You can watch video of all of Rinpoche’s lectures from Kopan 2018 here. To watch, listen to or read more teachings by Rinpoche, go to Rinpoche Available Now webpage on the FPMT website.

Kopan Course No. 51 Index Page

The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. Click on the links below to go directly to a particular lecture.

Introduction
Lecture 1: December 6
  • A Star in the Daytime
  • Becoming Free from Pervasive Compounding Suffering
  • A Star in Daytime (Back to)
  • Talking About Kopan
  • The I and the Aggregates
  • What You Are Doing Here in Kopan Is the Most Important Thing
  • Helping Others Is Helping Ourselves
  • Dedications
Lecture 2: December 7
  • Defective View
  • Like a Butter Lamp
  • Like a Dew Drop, a Dream, Lightning, Clouds
  • The Mind and Emptiness
  • The Motivation for Listening to the Teachings
  • The Buddha’s Great Compassion and His Mantra
  • Dedications
Lecture 3: December 8
  • The Uncontrolled Mind Causes So Much Suffering
  • A Good Heart Is the Most Important Education (Sixteen Guidelines)
  • The Buddha Manifests in Many Forms
  • A Good Heart Is the Most Important Education (Back to)
  • Subduing Our Mind, There Are no More Enemies
  • Dedications
Lecture 4: December 10
  • The Secret of the Mind
  • Only in the Southern Continent Can We Practice Dharma
  • Ignorance Exaggerates Good and Bad
  • Meditating on How the I Exists
  • Subduing the Mind, There Are No Enemies
  • Dedications
Lecture 5: December 11
  • Unless We Meet the Dharma, We Miss the Point
  • In the City of Hallucination
  • The Table Exists in Mere Name
  • The Varying Subtleties of the Refuting Object
  • The Guru Is the Most Powerful Object in Our Life
  • All Existence Is Merely Labeled by the Mind
  • Dedications
Lecture 6: December 12
  • Knowing the Meaning of Life
  • The Mind Is Like a Wish-Granting Jewel
  • Early Kopan Stories
  • The FPMT Grows
  • Practicing the Awareness of the False I
  • Don’t Cling to True Existence
  • Dedications
Lecture 7: December 13
  • Meditation on the Awareness of the Real I
Lecture 8: December 13 evening
  • We Must Renounce This Life
  • All Phenomena Are like the Reflection of the Moon
  • Dedications
Lecture 9: December 14
  • The Kindness of the Mother
  • Aptos and the Dog
  • Not Knowing When a Person Is Dead
  • The Importance of Holy Objects
  • The Kindness of the Mother (Back to)
  • The Rice Seedling
  • The Wheel of Life
  • Dedications
Lecture 10: December 15
  • Happiness and Suffering Are in Our Hands
  • The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha
  • Enlightenment Is in Our Hands
  • How the Wheel of Life Came into Existence
  • The Numberless Buddhas Can See Our Mind
  • The Elements of the Wheel of Life
  • The Twelve Links
  • The Importance of Meditating on Emptiness
  • What to Do After Leaving Kopan
Lecture 11: December 15 evening
  • Saving Worms and Fish
  • Practicing the Ten Virtues with Animal Liberation
  • The Eight Mahayana Precepts
  • Cherishing the Enemy
  • Dedications
Lecture 12: December 18
  • Preliminary Teachings to a Vajrasattva Jenang
  • Purifying the Results of Killing
  • Repaying the Kindness of Sentient Beings
  • Endnotes
Bibliography

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