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

Editor’s note: Besides some very poor quality tapes, many of the old reel-to-reel tapes were not labeled or were inaccurately labeled, and so it has been impossible to determine the chronological sequence of the lectures.

SECTION ONE

Lecture 1

• Introduction
• The reason we do pujas
• The meaning of Dharma
• The dangers of attachment

Lecture 2

• Attachment to alcohol and drugs
• The disadvantages of anger
• The most dangerous ignorance is not knowing what self is
• Real freedom is cessation of suffering
• How to meditate

Lecture 3

• The reason for the prayers
• The need for a compassionate motivation
• Happiness comes from others
• Suffering comes from the self
• Others are the cause of our liberation
• What enlightenment is
• Stories of Shakyamuni Buddha

Lecture 4

• The Buddha and the monks Great Path and Small Path
• Meditation: Watching the mind

SECTION TWO

Lecture 5

• Lamrim motivation
• Impermanence
• The impermanence of the mind
• An independent mind is impossible
• Question and answer

Lecture 6

• Delusions are not one with the mind
• The differences between liberation and enlightenment
• The need to clear all subtle obscurations
• The gradual path to enlightenment
• Reincarnation cannot be disproved
• Meditation: The mind is beginningless, the delusions are beginningless

Lecture 7

• Motivation: The need to be free in order to help others
• How to eliminate fundamental ignorance
• Shamatha and ethics
• Prostrations are an antidote to pride

Lecture 8

• Suffering comes from nonvirtue; happiness comes from virtue
• Karma: Karmic results

SECTION THREE

Lecture 9

• Dharmakaya and nirmanakaya
• The five degenerations

Lecture 10

• Thought transformation
• Like the sun reflected in drops of water

Lecture 11

• Motivation
• Being mindful in break times
• The shortcomings of harmful thoughts
• The perfect human rebirth: You can obtain temporal wishes
• The perfect human rebirth: You can be reborn in the pure lands
• The perfect human rebirth: It is easy to achieve nirvana and enlightenment
• The eight worldly dharmas
• There is no choice but to practice Dharma
• Bodhicitta: The importance of the good heart

Lecture 12

• The benefits of bodhicitta: Relative bodhicitta is the door to the Mahayana
• The benefits of bodhicitta: You become a son of the victorious ones
• The benefits of bodhicitta: You create great merit
• The benefits of bodhicitta: Meditation on the kindness of the mosquito
• The benefits of bodhicitta: We purify obscurations

SECTION FOUR

Lecture 13

• The benefits of bodhicitta: The fruit is never finished
• The benefits of bodhicitta: We achieve enlightenment
• Bodhicitta: Seven points of cause and effect
• The essence of advice nectar
• The seven point of cause and effect: Equanimity
• The seven point of cause and effect: All sentient beings have been our mother and incredibly kind
• The seven point of cause and effect: The kindness of the mother

Lecture 14

• Equalizing and exchanging self and others
• Thought transformation: The shortcomings of self-cherishing
• The shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought: The four suffering results
• Thought transformation: Self-cherishing, the evil butcher
• Put the blame on self-cherishing

Lecture 15

• The shortcomings of self-cherishing: The suffering in the six realms
• The shortcomings of self-cherishing: Grasping onto possessions
• Meditation on the shortcomings of self-cherishing
• Thought transformation: Motivating on cherishing others
• Meditating on cherishing others

Lecture 16

• The suffering of the six realms
• Meditating on purifying the lower realms
• The biography of Atisha
• Atisha: The lamrim and lo-jong texts
• Atisha: His kindness
• Tales of lineage lamas
• What Dharma is
• The five degenerations
• Meditation on death

SECTION FIVE

Lecture 17

• Motivation
• Thought transformation: The preliminaries
• Thought transformation: Preliminaries, setting up the altar
• Thought transformation: Preliminaries, visualizing the merit field
• Thought transformation: Preliminaries, the seven-limb prayer
• Thought transformation: Preliminaries, the mandala offering
• Respect for Dharma objects

Lecture 18

• Motivation
• Thought transformation: Preliminaries, the mandala offering (cont.)
• Offering food

Lecture 19

• Motivation
• Perfect human rebirth
• The benefits of saying refuge and bodhicitta prayers
• Even animals work for the happiness of this life
• Only virtue makes life meaningful

Lecture 20

• Anger blocks obtaining perfect human rebirth
• The eight worldly dharmas
• Controlling delusions and self-cherishing
• Thought transformation: Give the victory to others
• The advantages of thought transformation

SECTION SIX

Lecture 21

• Motivation
• Renunciation
• Remembering impermanence and death
• The dissatisfaction of worldly life
• The dissatisfaction of worldly life: Old age
• Remembering the death process
• The meaning of Shakyamuni Buddha’s mantra

Lecture 22

• Death is certain
• Remembering impermanence and death

Lecture 23

• Being kind to the enemy
• Meditation on the enemy
• Enlightenment is impossible without the enemy
• The enemy is more precious than a universe of jewels
• The mosquito is the cause of your enlightenment
• All sentient beings are the cause of your enlightenment

Lecture 24

• Ignorance and self-grasping
• The benefits of the lamrim
• The benefits of bodhicitta

SECTION SEVEN

Lecture 25

• Motivation
• Dying with a virtuous and a nonvirtuous mind
• Vajrasattva
• Purification practices: The Thirty-five Buddhas
• Purification practices: Milarepa’s mantra
• Overcoming self-cherishing
• Chenrezig mantra
• The kindness of sentient beings

Lecture 26

• Motivation
• Cherishing others
• Showing patience for sentient beings who have harmed us
• Morality
• Seeing the sentient beings as the guru