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

• About the LYWA Kopan eBook Project

Lecture 1: November 29

• The Reason You Have Come to Kopan
• The Three Great Meanings
• We Are Here to Serve Others
• Making Each Day Meaningful
• The Three Great Meanings (Back to)
• Having a Good Heart
• Milarepa
• Dedications

Lecture 2: November 30

• Seeing Things as a Hallucination
• Emptiness and Dependent Arising
• The Heart Sutra
• The Graduated Path of the Three Capable Beings
• Look at the Hallucinated Mundane World
• Dedications

Lecture 3: December 1

• Meditating on the Nature of Causative Phenomena
• Subtle Karma and Examining Our Life
• The Four Unknowing Minds
• With Dependent Arising We Eliminate Ignorance
• The Subtle Middle Way Between Eternalism and Nihilism
• Only Prasangika Have a Perfect View of Emptiness
• “Nothing Exists and Yet It Appears”
• Dedications

Lecture 4: December 3

• That Which is Dependent Arising Is Empty
• Looking Back on the Mirage of True Existence
• Four Ways to Achieve Realizations
• The I on the I
• The Importance of Preliminary Practices
• Everything Is Created by the Mind
• Dedications

Lecture 5: December 4

• The Real Kopan Is Defective View
• Freeing All Transmigratory Beings
• Rinpoche’s Mouse Karma
• Making Charity to Animals
• Alleviating the Darkness of Ignorance
• Taking Precepts Brings Great Benefit to the World
• Dedications

Lecture 6: December 5

• Bodhicitta Eliminates All Faults and Generates All Qualities
• Oral Transmission of the Namgyalma Mantra
• The Oral Transmission of the Mantra of the Sutra of Great Liberation
• Reciting the Five Powerful Mantras
• Being Aware of the Illusion
• Meditating on the Suffering of the Beach
• Look at Unharmonious Situations as Like Illusions

Lecture 7: December 7, am

• Rinpoche Denies Being a Bodhisattva
• Rinpoche Remembers the Nepalese Earthquake
• Generating Compassion and Taking on the Suffering of Others
• The Kindness of All Sentient Beings

Lecture 8: December 7, pm

• Giving Creates So Much Merit
• With Karma We Can Transform Our Life
• The Bodhisattva Attitude
• Transforming Suffering
• Developing the Bodhisattva Attitude
• Verses from Praise to Bodhicitta
• Benefiting Sentient Beings Is Benefiting the Buddha

Lecture 9: December 9

• Verses from Praise to Bodhicitta
• The Purpose of Our Life Is to Repay Others’ Kindness
• The Three Capable Beings
• Seeing the Suffering of Others Inspires Us to Practice the Dharma
• The Real I and the Snake
• Emptiness Is Not Nonexistence

Lecture 10: December 10

• Does Alzheimer’s Exist?
• We Can’t Disprove Reincarnation Just Because We Can’t See It
• Being Used by Others
• The Time of Death
• Cherishing Others More than ourselves
• Refuge Preparation
• The Refuge Book
• The Merits of Offering to a Statue
• The Four Suffering Results of Sexual Misconduct
• The Refuge Ceremony
• Dedications

Lecture 11: December 11, am

Separating from the Four Clingings
Avoiding the Wrong Meditation on Emptiness
Licking Honey from the Sword
How the Buddha Teaches Us

Lecture 12: December 11, pm

The Benefits of the Longest Chenrezig mantra
The Rice Seedling Sutra
The Wheel of Life

Lecture 13: December 11, pm

The Benefits of Reciting the Buddha’s Name Mantra
The Wheel of Life [Back to]
We Are in the Fangs of Yama
The Meaning of Vajrasattva

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