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In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives us the answer to the perennial question of how to integrate Dharma with our daily lives. It contains a public talk explaining the purpose of life in general and the practice of guru devotion, a wide array of techniques for transforming ordinary actions into causes for enlightenment and advice on establishing a daily practice.
"We are unbelievably fortunate to have met the Dharma and to have the opportunity to do recitation and meditation on the Compassion Buddha. It is an easy way of purifying whatever negative karma we have collected in not only this life but in many previous lives as well." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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.
In these talks, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche explain the great benefits of practicing Dharma as an ordained person, how to keep the ordination pure, the purpose of the monastic community, how to live together as monks and nuns, and much more.
In these teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. This ebook conveys the spontaneous and intimate quality of Rinpoche's teaching style, as he encourages us to practice Dharma so that our life becomes most beneficial and useful to others.
All the things we do can become very powerful methods for quickly achieving enlightenment. As we purify ourselves and collect extensive merit, we bring ourselves closer to enlightenment every minute of every day. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.
This book is a practical guide to the eight Mahayana precepts. It explains the benefits of the vows and the meaning of the ceremony for receiving them, and for easy reference contains the ceremony itself, written out clearly for regular use.
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.
In this book, Geshe Gyeltsen helps us establish a correct view of emptiness, the ultimate mode of being of all phenomena. Basing his explanation of emptiness on the Heart Sutra and the emptiness section of Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun, Geshe-la helps us cut through our inability to see reality and sets us firmly on the path to liberation and enlightenment.
