Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
SUN OF DEVOTION, STREAM OF BLESSINGS<br />
The <strong>Lama</strong> Yeshe Wisdom Archive ...................................................................................... 3<br />
Editor’s Preface ...................................................................................................................... 7<br />
1. Taking Care of the Mind ............................................................................................... 9<br />
The method to transform the mind .................................................................................. 10<br />
In a well-cultivated field, whatever is planted will grow ................................................. 13<br />
Happiness is a dependent arising ............................................................................................... 14<br />
2. Our Happiness Is in Our Hands .............................................................................. 18<br />
Transforming suffering into happiness ............................................................................. 18<br />
The ultimate mind is sang-gyä ................................................................................................... 20<br />
Education is more than learning ........................................................................................ 21<br />
Padmasambhava’s ways of diagnosing illness .............................................................................. 23<br />
What is samsara? .................................................................................................................. 23<br />
Practicing Dharma is subduing our mind ................................................................................... 25<br />
The inner education of patience and compassion ........................................................... 25<br />
Our family is our mind training ................................................................................................ 27<br />
There can be no happiness following the selfcherishing thought .................................................... 28<br />
3. The Hallucination of the Real I .................................................................... 32<br />
Buddhism comes to Tibet ................................................................................................... 32<br />
The Buddha manifests in an ordinary form to guide us ................................................. 35<br />
Emptiness only, tong-panyi ............................................................................................... 36<br />
What we do to protect this nonexistent real I ............................................................................. 38<br />
How everything appears to us as truly existing ........................................................................... 40<br />
The Prasangika view of emptiness ............................................................................................. 42<br />
4. The Need for Ethics and Refuge .................................................................. 44<br />
We have met these eight freedoms and ten richnesses .................................................. 44<br />
The perfect human rebirth is so rare and so fragile ...................................................................... 47<br />
Believer or nonbeliever, we must still lead an ethical life .............................................................. 50<br />
The need for refuge in our life ........................................................................................... 53<br />
The importance of the Namgyälma mantra ................................................................................ 55<br />
5. The Room Before It Is Named ..................................................................... 58<br />
The room before it is named .............................................................................................. 59<br />
Illusioned by the magician, ignorance .......................................................................................... 61<br />
Understanding the real I ...................................................................................................... 62<br />
We have met the correct teachings ............................................................................................... 63<br />
The king of delusions ................................................................................................................ 63<br />
The emptiness of the Z .............................................................................................................. 65<br />
Time to stop the tyranny of the real I ......................................................................................... 66<br />
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