The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures.
- Introduction
- How amazing Westerners have an interest in Buddhism
- The purpose of meditation
- The meaning of life
- Emptiness: How the I exists
- Ignorance and the six realms
- The different views of emptiness
- The benefits of listening to Dharma
- Dedications
- The body and mind are in the nature of suffering
- The enlightened mind
- Emptiness: The ignorance of what the I is
- Emptiness: Base and label, child and name
- Emptiness: Labeling the table
- Emptiness: The object of refutation
- Emptiness: Imputing true existence on the base
- Emptiness: Imputing beautiful
- The body and mind are in the nature of suffering
- The purpose of life is to liberate others
- Oral transmission of the Diamond Cutter Sutra
- The emptiness of the A
- Meditating on how all objects are labeled by the mind
- Everything comes from the mind
- Guru devotion is the root of the path
- Emptiness: How the mind labels
- Emptiness: Good and bad depend on the label
- The kindness of the enemy
- Rinpoche’s two alphabet teachers and his early life
- Geshe Rabten
- Good and bad are labeled by the mind
- Problems come from our own karma, not other people
- Seeing problems as opportunities
- Compassion is the essence of religion
- Subduing the mind is right view
- Meditation on emptiness
- Shakyamuni visualization meditation
- Bodhicitta makes it easy to realize emptiness
- Practicing patience
- The enemy is the kindest person
- The benefits of practicing patience
- Thought transformation is the best psychology
- The four noble truths: the origin of suffering
- The twelve links: karma and consciousness
- The twelve links: name and form
- The twelve links: consciousness, karma and ignorance
- Everything comes from the mind
- [Dedications]
- The four noble truths: The four aspects of the truth of suffering, impermanence
- Problems come from not understanding impermanence and selflessness
- Meditating on impermanence and death
- The twelve links: Seeing how problems come from our own karma
- Being aware in the break time of how we label everything
- A pure mind sees things purely (the preta, the deva and the human)
- Meditating on how everything comes from the mind
- The ten nonvirtues: Killing
- The ten nonvirtues: Sexual misconduct
- The karmic results of keeping vows
- Introducing Geshe Sopa
- Oral transmission of the Thirty-five Buddhas, introduction
- Emptiness: How things appear to exist from their own side
- Emptiness: The “A” seems to appear from its own side
- Emptiness: The I is neither one with nor separate from the aggregates
- Emptiness: The I is not one with the aggregates
- Emptiness: Nor is the I separate from the aggregates
- Emptiness: Year is merely imputed
- Emptiness: Seeing life as like an illusion
- Emptiness: A year is merely imputed
- Emptiness: the aggregates are merely imputed
- Everything is merely labeled
- Emptiness: The rope and the snake are merely labeled by the mind
- Bodhicitta: the seven points cause and effect
- Bodhicitta: the kindness of the mother
- Bodhicitta: Repaying the kindness
- Bodhicitta: generating loving kindness
- Adding Dharma to Roger’s car
- Bodhicitta: Generating loving kindness
- Bodhicitta: Special attitude
- Only enlightened beings can help all sentient beings
- Dedications
- A Mahayana motivation
- The shortcomings of self-cherishing
- Self-cherishing stops you following the guru
- Self-cherishing brings all unhappiness
- Bodhicitta is the source of all happiness
- All happiness comes from others
- The ten nonvirtues: Stealing
- The ten nonvirtues: Lying
- The ten nonvirtues: Slander
- The ten nonvirtues: Gossiping
- The ten nonvirtues: Harsh speech
- The ten nonvirtues: Covetousness
- The ten nonvirtues: Ill will
- The ten nonvirtues: Heresy
- Karma: The four outlines
- Six ways of purifying
- How to live with bodhicitta
- Dedications
- When is a person dead?
- Seeing the suffering nature of samsara brings realizations
- The early days at Kopan
- Lama Yeshe gets sick
- Meditation on death
- Death meditation: The clear light
- The death process
- The importance of understanding reincarnation and death
- The Dalai Lama can remember past lives
- Ordinary people can remember past lives
- Fear at the time of death
- Geshe Jampa Wangdu
- The uncertainty of when a person is dead
- Refuge in the Triple Gem
- Remembering the Triple Gem helps at death
- Refuge in the Triple Gem frees from samsara
- The importance of taking vows
- The refuge ceremony
- How to practice refuge in the Buddha
- How to practice refuge in the Dharma
- How to practice refuge in the Sangha
- How to practice refuge in general
- The oral transmission of the Medicine Buddha mantra
- The Vajrasattva mantra
- Dedications
- The benefits of writing and listening to Dharma
- The Prajnaparamita teachings are the heart of the Dharma
- The purpose of filling statues
- The benefits of printing the Diamond Cutter Sutra
- The oral transmission of the Diamond Cutter Sutra
- The importance of putting effort into Dharma practice
- Advice for daily practice