
Teachings
Advice on how to resolve conflict with fellow students at the Dharma center by remembering their kindness and developing a tolerant and compassionate attitude.
- Having the Attitude to Help •
- Complaints about Director •
- Advice for Dealing with Difficult People •
- Conflicts with Fellow Students •
- Living with a Difficult Student •
- Every Sentient Being Is Most Kind, Most Dear, Most Precious •
- Why Compassion Is Most Important at the Center •
Advice for those who have offered service as center director and are retiring from that role.
- Thanks to Outgoing Director •
- Departing Center Director •
- Thanks For Service as Director •
- On Retiring •
- When the Center Director Is Changed •
- Work at the Center Is So Beneficial •
- Resuming Study After Directorship •
Advice for students planning to build at the Dharma center.
- Completion of a Stupa •
- Renovations at the Center •
- Building a New Gompa After a Fire •
- Thank You and Rejoice! •
- A New Center Building •
- Pujas Before Felling Trees •
- Construction of a New Building •
- The Four Harmonious Brothers •
Advice and thanks given to students who have offered service and support for Dharma centers and projects in various roles.
- Retreat Advice and Thanks for Many Years of Service •
- Thanks for Making Dharma Books Available •
- Thanks for Offering Service •
- Study and Service for Sentient Beings •
- Helping a Nun •
- Years of Service •
- Thanks to Benefactor •
- Thanking Benefactors •
- To a Benefactor •
- Merit Box Donations •
- Offering Service For Many Years •
- Thanks for Support •
- Service at Retreat Center •
- Long-term Retreat •
- Help the Center Continuously •
- Continue Helping the Center •
- The Benefits of Serving a Dharma Center •
- Benefits of Karma Yoga •
- You Are Needed at the Center •
Advice about the importance of the Dharma center, which brings benefit to so many sentient beings.
- Tenth Anniversary Message •
- Thirtieth Birthday Message •
- The Importance of the Dharma Center •
- Benefits of FPMT Projects •
- Benefits of the FPMT •
- Dharma Centers •
- The Dharma Center is an Emergency Rescue Operation •
- Benefits of Dharma Centers and Temples •
- Benefits of Working at a Dharma Center •
Advice for center directors on how to resolve conflict with difficult students at the Dharma center by remembering their kindness and having an open heart, tolerance and compassion.
- Center Disharmony and Theft •
- Difficulties in Dharma Center •
- Problems at a Dharma Center •
- How to Bring Harmony to the Center •
Advice on the practice of giving and letters of thanks to benefactors of Rinpoche's centers and projects.
- Kind Benefactor •
- Thanking Benefactors •
- Thanks for Donation to Kopan •
- Donation to Amdo Eye Center •
- Ways to Give Away Money •
- Investing for Real Profit •
- Helping a Business •
- The Center is of Utmost Importance •
- Thanks for Generosity to FPMT and His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche about offering service at the Dharma center. Topics include conflict resolution, how to design the center logo, fundraising and teaching Dharma.
- The Merit of Serving the Guru •
- The Merit of Working at the Center •
- Sending Music to Center Director •
- Helping a Study Group •
- Thanks to Director •
- Buying Property for Center •
- Card and Earrings •
- Buying Land for the Center •
- A Very Special Job •
- A Challenge For Your Practice •
- Thanking Directors •
- How to Deal With Stress •
- The Need for Dharma Centers •
- Illegal Buildings on a Property •
- Chairperson of a Dharma Center •
- Model Center Directors •
- Change in Position Due to Karma •
- New Director •
- Numberless Thanks for Your Service •
- Thanks for Service at the Center •
- Advice Received in a Dream •
- A Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2012 •
- A Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2009 •
- A Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2011 •
- Saving Money at the Office •
- Service in Delhi •
- FPMT Support for a Project •
- The Role of FPMT •
- Pleasing His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
- Message to FPMT International Office •
- More Talks on this Topic: FPMT Service •
- A Letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2015 •
- A Letter From Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2016 •
- A Message from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 2019 •
- Logos for centers, projects and services •
- Center Logo •
- Monastery Logo •
- Universal Education Logo •
- Borrowing Money to Start a Hospice •
- Dedication Prayers •
- Advice for Buying Property •
- Change Zoning of the Center •
- Advice for Meditators at Shine Retreat Land •
- Applying for a Permit •
- Four Buddha Days •
- How to Bless Tea •
- Spending Money at the Center •
- The Purpose of the Buddha Descending to this World •
- Do Not Keep Weapons at the Center •
- Practices for Center Success •
- Feng Shui at the Center •
- How Precious Having Met Dharma •
- Pujas for New Apartment •
- Thanks for Offering Service at the Center •
- Offering Service •
- Keep the Happiness of All Sentient Beings in Your Heart •
- Serving All Sentient Beings •
- The Benefit of Working for the Center – Wow! •
- Working for the Center is Most Fortunate and Important •
- Serving Others is the Best Life •
- Collecting Merit at the Dharma Center •
- Advice to Study Group •
- The Role of the Dharma Center •
- Voluntary Work •
- The Need for Organizations •
- Education Program at Dharma Center •
- Protection and Blessing of Retreat Land •
- Dharma Teachings via the Internet •
- Sutras Played Aloud •
- Finding a Retreat Center •
- Practices for Developing the Center •
- A Meaningful Life •
- Texts for Dharma Group Study •
- More Talks on this Topic: Working at the Dharma Center •
- How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even With Your Speech •
- Dharma Becomes the Most Important Thing •
- Lam-rim and Lo-jong Are Best •
- The Center is for Benefiting Sentient Beings •
- The Ultimate Goal of the Center •
- Actualizing Lamrim While Working for the Center •
- Fundraising With Strong Guru Devotion •
- How to Raise Money for Retreat Places •
- Fundraising for a House •
- Successful Fundraising •
- Handling Proceeds of Fundraising Event •
- Fundraising for Meditators •
- Fundraising for Maratika Lama •
- Erma Jam to Raise Funds For Lawudo •
- Practices for Fundraising Success •