Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Recommendations

Info

6. The Guru Is the Most Powerful Object ........................................................ 68 The sun of devotion, the stream of blessings .................................................................. 68 To disrespect the guru is to disrespect all the buddhas ................................................................. 70 The kindness of the parents ............................................................................................... 72 Wasting our life, we waste our parents’ lives ............................................................................... 75 The guru is the most powerful object ............................................................................... 76 Examples of offering service to the guru ...................................................................................... 78 7. A Talk about Dolgyal .................................................................................... 81 My life in Phagri and Buxa Duar ....................................................................................... 82 Buxa Duar .............................................................................................................................. 84 About Dolgyal ...................................................................................................................... 85 Having no mistakes but showing mistakes ................................................................................. 87 The need to renounce Dolgyal practice ........................................................................................ 89 His Holiness is the one to reveal the complete teachings ............................................................... 93 8. Khadrola ....................................................................................................... 94 Khadrola and earthquakes ................................................................................................. 95 The power of the bodhisattvas .................................................................................................... 96 Saving animals and humans ...................................................................................................... 97 Publicly she is like an ordinary person ....................................................................................... 99 The guru appears in an ordinary form because of our impure mind ......................... 100 The absolute and conventional guru ......................................................................................... 104 9. The Importance of Guru Devotion ............................................................. 108 The importance of guru devotion ................................................................................... 109 The real beginning is guru devotion ................................................................................ 112 All happiness comes from Dharma ................................................................................. 113 The importance of the Dharma and Dharma centers ................................................................ 115 Rinpoche learns English .......................................................................................................... 116 Vajrayana is like the sun and moon ................................................................................. 117 How can we be happy while others suffer? ................................................................................ 119 10. Seeing the Guru as a Buddha .................................................................... 121 The harm Dolgyal has done ............................................................................................. 121 We must investigate any guru we want to follow ....................................................................... 124 Seeing the guru as a buddha ............................................................................................. 126 Offering to the pores of His Holiness ....................................................................................... 128 The guru is more precious than a wish-granting jewel ................................................................ 132 Seeing apparent mistakes in the guru ....................................................................................... 134 11. More Precious than a Wishgranting Jewel ............................................... 137 Lama Tsongkhapa and Mönlam ...................................................................................... 137 The benefits of prostrations ...................................................................................................... 139 Khadrola’s story ................................................................................................................ 141 Benefiting sentient beings ................................................................................................. 142 How to help somebody who is dying or dead ............................................................................. 143 Having a perfect human rebirth is like a dream ............................................................ 144 5
We must not waste one moment ............................................................................................... 146 Whether or not we eat animals is in our hands ......................................................................... 147 This precious human life is more precious than a wish-granting jewel ......................................... 148 We must prepare for the next life .................................................................................... 151 Which will come first, tomorrow or the next life? ...................................................................... 152 Renounce this life .................................................................................................................... 154 12. Cutting the Root of Samsara ..................................................................... 157 The decoration that pervades our life ............................................................................. 157 Cutting the root of samsara ..................................................................................................... 158 The twelve limbs ................................................................................................................ 159 All our happiness has come from other sentient beings .............................................. 164 Only by cherishing others will we attain enlightenment .............................................................. 166 13. Practicing Tantra ....................................................................................... 168 Heruka, Guhyasamaja and Yamantaka ........................................................................... 168 Why practicing Heruka is important ....................................................................................... 170 Taking initiation: the samayas of the five buddha families .......................................... 171 Using the damaru, vajra and bell ............................................................................................ 175 The interpretation of dreams .................................................................................................... 177 Vajrayana and emptiness ................................................................................................... 177 Vajrayana combines method and wisdom in one mind .............................................................. 178 Tantra is the resultant vehicle .................................................................................................. 179 End notes ............................................................................................................................ 181 Chronology ......................................................................................................................... 189 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................ 190 Publisher’s Acknowledgments ......................................................................................... 194 Previously published by LYWA ....................................................................................... 196 Other teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche ....................................... 197 About the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive ....................................................................... 198 About the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition .................. 201 What to do with Dharma teachings ................................................................................ 202 Dedication ........................................................................................................................... 203 About Lama Zopa Rinpoche............................................................................................ 204 About Gordon McDougall ............................................................................................... 205 Signup for the LYWA eLetter .......................................................................................... 206 Browse all LYWA ebooks ................................................................................................. 207 Connect with LYWA ......................................................................................................... 208 6
Page 2 and 3: SUN OF DEVOTION, STREAM OF BLESSING
Page 4 and 5: The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Bring
Page 8 and 9: Editor’s Preface This book is the
Page 10 and 11: Chapter 1. Taking Care of the Mind
Page 12 and 13: We still have to experience death b
Page 14 and 15: In a well-cultivated field, whateve
Page 16 and 17: What a pleasant life we human being
Page 18 and 19: enefit the teachings of the Buddha
Page 20 and 21: Among those fifty-one secondary min
Page 22 and 23: means the cessation of all the gros
Page 24 and 25: Padmasambhava’s ways of diagnosin
Page 26 and 27: Practicing Dharma is subduing our m
Page 28 and 29: from life to life, we will be able
Page 30 and 31: In A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s W
Page 32 and 33: said, that allows them to develop i
Page 34 and 35: contained in the Tengyur, a collect
Page 36 and 37: Thus the misconceptions about Buddh
Page 38 and 39: Not understanding this specific emp
Page 40 and 41: Cutter Sutra eventually does. Then
Page 42 and 43: There are sentient beings who are a
Page 44 and 45: vase, the neck is not the vase, the
Page 46 and 47: 4. The freedom of not being born as
Page 48 and 49: sentient beings, not only to the ti
Page 50 and 51: If Milarepa could do that after kil
Page 52 and 53: All of us, believers or nonbeliever
Page 54 and 55: The need for refuge in our life Per
Page 56 and 57:
▶abstaining from telling lies ▶
Page 58 and 59:
Otherwise they come into the kitche
Page 60 and 61:
Our life is so important, so precio
Page 62 and 63:
Even though our mind, or the other
Page 64 and 65:
We will realize this as we are abou
Page 66 and 67:
The emptiness of the Z I want to en
Page 68 and 69:
the greatest problem that affluent
Page 70 and 71:
Without a guru, we cannot be free f
Page 72 and 73:
This is mentioned in Pabongka Deche
Page 74 and 75:
particles of dust of the earth. Eve
Page 76 and 77:
human mother. If we were to sacrifi
Page 78 and 79:
Buddhism came from the Buddha, from
Page 80 and 81:
obscurations but also the obscurati
Page 82 and 83:
Chapter 7. A Talk about Dolgyal Rec
Page 84 and 85:
seemed to like us and we were able
Page 86 and 87:
very crowded. That’s how we lived
Page 88 and 89:
him about the bum-pa, the vase. Thi
Page 90 and 91:
A key element of guru devotion prac
Page 92 and 93:
who helped with his education, his
Page 94 and 95:
In short, practicing Dolgyal is har
Page 96 and 97:
Khadro-la and earthquakes Although
Page 98 and 99:
esult of negative karma is rebirth
Page 100 and 101:
Publicly she is like an ordinary pe
Page 102 and 103:
There are other quotations but that
Page 104 and 105:
Once in Nepal I dreamed of a small
Page 106 and 107:
is the kind root guru. Then it star
Page 108 and 109:
It is as the quote says, Before the
Page 110 and 111:
The importance of guru devotion Pad
Page 112 and 113:
So now, this is a real story. At Bu
Page 114 and 115:
them perfectly—and even if he has
Page 116 and 117:
Practicing Dharma is more important
Page 118 and 119:
memorize them but then forgot them
Page 120 and 121:
egin by achieving a long life, wher
Page 122 and 123:
Chapter 10. Seeing the Guru as a Bu
Page 124 and 125:
The monks did that, but of course,
Page 126 and 127:
uddhas. That is also mentioned in t
Page 128 and 129:
person without head. I don’t know
Page 130 and 131:
Those meditators who have achieved
Page 132 and 133:
When I was in Tibet I visited Tsurp
Page 134 and 135:
Why should they be called kon-chog
Page 136 and 137:
that it is his mistake. It is like
Page 138 and 139:
Chapter 11. More Precious than a Wi
Page 140 and 141:
patience, perseverance, meditation
Page 142 and 143:
dust of this earth can be counted,
Page 144 and 145:
we were once crossing a short bridg
Page 146 and 147:
There are so many animals. There ar
Page 148 and 149:
Whether or not we eat animals is in
Page 150 and 151:
Having been born at a time when the
Page 152 and 153:
We must prepare for the next life T
Page 154 and 155:
There is no sentient being we have
Page 156 and 157:
Probably many people think that ren
Page 158 and 159:
Chapter 12. Cutting the Root of Sam
Page 160 and 161:
Because things appear to us not as
Page 162 and 163:
161
Page 164 and 165:
This is all karma. What the Buddha
Page 166 and 167:
numberless suffering sentient being
Page 168 and 169:
By seeing that person as a wish-gra
Page 170 and 171:
light more and some illusory body.
Page 172 and 173:
to achieve enlightenment. The other
Page 174 and 175:
together is the transcendental wisd
Page 176 and 177:
Then you make a promise to generate
Page 178 and 179:
eings who also need the Medicine Bu
Page 180 and 181:
Focus on the deity’s holy body th
Page 182 and 183:
End Notes 1. Or his. Rather than us
Page 184 and 185:
30. Khedrub Sang ye Yeshe (1525-91)
Page 186 and 187:
64. In other teachings Rinpoche has
Page 188 and 189:
97. These are the three ways to und
Page 190 and 191:
Where and when these teachings were
Page 192 and 193:
Gyatso, Tenzin, the Fourteenth Dala
Page 194 and 195:
———. How to Practice Dharma:
Page 196 and 197:
If you, dear reader, would like to
Page 198 and 199:
Other available teachings by Lama Y
Page 200 and 201:
Our further development similarly d
Page 202 and 203:
The Foundation for the Preservation
Page 204 and 205:
Dedication Through the merit create
Page 206 and 207:
About Gordon McDougall Gordon McDou
Page 208 and 209:
Browse more LYWA Ebooks and Audio B
show all

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?