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