The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures.
- Greeting students
- Dharma is the cure to our beginningless delusions
- There is nowhere in samsara that is not suffering
- Bodhicitta and renunciation
- Becoming enlightened to guide every sentient being
- The gradual path of the three capable beings
- The I is impossible to find
- Food offering and dedication
- The benefits of the bodhicitta prayer
- We can’t have compassion and harm somebody at the same time
- The infallible path
- The label depends on the base
- The subtle object of refutation
- Dedication
- Meditation is not enough, we need purification, merit and devotion
- Enlightened, we can do perfect work for others
- Tantra is the quick path
- Realizations will take time
- With bodhicitta we only cherish others
- Food offering and dedication
- The benefiting of cherishing others: Tong-len
- The benefiting of cherishing others: Geshe Chekawa prays to be reborn in hell
- The benefiting of cherishing others: Tsumpulwa carries the leper
- The benefiting of cherishing others: Asanga sees Maitreya
- The benefiting of cherishing others: The Buddha pulls the chariot in hell
- The benefiting of cherishing others: Tong-len cures diseases
- The benefiting of cherishing others: No satisfaction unless we cherish others
- Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas
- How the guru manifests to guide us
- Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas (cont)
- Three criteria of how things exist
- Oral transmission of The Lamp for the Path
- Dedication
- Do tong-len wherever you see suffering
- Recitation of The Heart Sutra and Requesting Prayer to the Lineage Lamas
- Dedication
- Sutrayana and Mahayana five paths
- A buddha manifests in whatever way most benefits sentient beings
- We believe in appearance, the Omniscient One doesn’t
- Seeing things as like a mirage
- Look at causative phenomena as stars
- Don’t get angry at the stick
- The harmer is only the object of compassion
- Causative phenomena are like an illusion
- Causative phenomena are like a water bubble
- Causative phenomena are like a dream
- Causative phenomena are like lightning
- Causative phenomena are like a cloud
- Dedication
- Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas: The three Kadampa Geshe groups
- We can help but others must create the cause of their own happiness
- Nonvirtuous motivation can never bring peace
- Dedication
- The importance of a good heart
- Ben Gungyal and holy Dharma and worldly dharma
- Zina, Rinpoche and Buxa
- Zina and Darjeeling
- The founding of Kopan
- The education of compassion
- The four outlines of karma
- More on tong-len
- Transforming suffering into happiness
- The importance of the motivation (Four people recite the Tara praises)
- This perfect human rebirth is more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
- Perfect human rebirth: holy Dharma and worldly dharma
- The importance of mindfulness
- The yoga of going to sleep
- Refuge is the door to Buddhadharma
- The thief who has refuge beaten into him
- Even refuge in one refuge object saves from the lower realms
- Only Buddhism rescues from pervasive compounding suffering
- Refuge ceremony
- The four harmonious brothers
- Dedication
- The basic philosophy of Buddhism
- The three great meanings: Happiness in future lives
- The eight ripening aspect of a precious human body
- Having a powerful body and mind: The story of Milarepa
- The three great meanings: achieving liberation, enlightenment and never wasting a second of this life
- Because everything comes from the mind we have infinite freedom
- Dedication
- Tea offering
- The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
- Protector prayer
- The meaning of Tara
- Dr Nick meets the Dharma
- The meaning of Tara (cont)
- The Buddha manifests in whatever form is beneficial
- The meaning of Tara (cont)
- The beginnings of the FPMT by Ven. Roger Kunsang
- Rinpoche signs his book
- The merits of doing any practice with refuge
- Life in Buxa
- The large monasteries emphasize Buddhist philosophy
- Life in Buxa (cont.)
- The refuge vow not to kill
- Developing special attitude
- Why do we have to hear about suffering?
- Causal refuge leads to resultant refuge
- Mahayana refuge
- The sufferings of transmigratory beings
- People who understand the cause of freedom have freedom in this life
- The power of seeing a holy object
- The power of offering and prostrating to holy objects
- Advice about going on pilgrimage
- Buddhism and the British come to Tibet
- Rinpoche visits the holy lakes of Tibet
- Swayambhunath
- The benefits of the prostration mudra
- The oral transmission of Lamp for the Path
- Advice on practice at home
- The oral transmission of the Eight Verses
- Daily practice and purification
- Dedications and more advice
- The lung of Shantideva’s Condensed Advice (possibly)
- Vajrasattva initiation