These teachings offer valuable advice related to our Dharma studies and practice: how to check whether our practices are Dharma, the need for study and constant reflection on the Buddha’s teachings, and how to overcome our afflictions and problems so that we can truly benefit others.
This book presents the classic framework of Buddhist mind and mental factors, explains how they operate, offers insightful commentary based on personal experience and explores how Western psychological concepts such as the super-ego can work with Buddhist psychological concepts.
This book comprises several motivations taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche called “bodhicitta motivations for life,” intended for us to use first thing every morning to generate the mind of bodhicitta and dedicate our life to numberless sentient beings.
On his two visits to Singapore in 1997, Venerable Lama Ribur Rinpoche taught extensively on how to generate bodhicitta: the awakening mind aspiring towards enlightenment so as to have perfect ability to free all beings from suffering and lead them to peerless happiness. Rinpoche also gave teachings on lojong (thought transformation) which enables us to transform the inevitable problems of life into the causes for enlightenment.
While in Mongolia, Venerable Gyatso wrote this wonderful series of short essays exploring topics such as anger, desire, loneliness and freedom, through the clarifying lens of his own personal experience.
On the eve of his three-year solitary retreat, Adrian Feldmann (Ven. Thubten Gyatso) recounts the inner and outer journey that led him to become a Buddhist monk. He gives a humorous account of his search for happiness.
In this book, Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Jampa Tegchok explains how we can train our mind away from self-cherishing, the cause of all suffering, and develop compassion, the cause of everything that is good. He bases his explanation on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa’s classic text, The Seven Point Mind Training, which, amongst other things, teaches us how to transform problems into happiness.
Success in meditation is often elusive, even for those of us that have meditated for a long time. This book contains useful tips for meditation practice and helps us bring the Dharma happily into the modern world.
A weekend seminar based on the famous month-long Kopan meditation courses. Preceded by Lama Yeshe’s lecture on meditation, these teachings encompass the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. The teachings on this DVD set can be found in the book also titled Freedom Through Understanding.
A weekend seminar on death, intermediate state and rebirth taught by Lama Yeshe in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 1983. The topic is particularly poignant as this was the last teaching Lama gave in the West; he passed away some five months later. Here he was his usual boisterous, punchy, direct, funny, loving and compassionate self, treating death in his incomparable light yet serious way.
