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20 Bodhicitta Is The Treasure Of Merit 18-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 20
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to do the meditation with the requesting prayer. The way to meditate is to realize Guru Vajradhara, the Dharmakaya Bu…
11 months, 1 week ago
19 The Eight Freedoms And Ten Richnesses 17-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 19
Lama Zopa Rinpoche says that if you are only seeking the happiness of this life, then you haven’t reached any of the three capacities of the lamrim. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
18 The Middle Way View 17-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 18
Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of first becoming clear about the extremely subtle dependent arising view that things exist merely in na…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
17 Oral Transmission Of The Guru Puja 17-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 17
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives the oral transmission (lung) of the Guru Puja. He explains that taking the oral transmission is important because it has the…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
16 Freedom From The Preta And Animal Realms 16-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 16
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins with a recap of the previous session’s topic: to always live life with a bodhicitta motivation. He cites the Kadampa geshes…
1 year ago
15 The Preciousness Of Human Life 16-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 15
Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins with a reminder about the previous session’s discussion of how beneficial it is to recite the Buddha’s past bodhisattva lif…
1 year ago
14 The Buddha’s Past Life Stories 16-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 14
This session begins with the Guru Puja offering practice, prayers, and mantras. During the recitation of the tong-len prayer, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advi…
1 year ago
13 The Steps On The Path To Enlightenment 15-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 13
Lama Zopa Rinpoche defines each of the three capacities of lamrim practitioners: lower, middling, and upper capacity beings. He advises that if we ar…
1 year ago
12 Advice On Prayers And Offerings 15-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 12
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the Guru Puja prayers and offerings. He begins by reminding us to cultivate the special bodhicitta motivation and visuali…
1 year, 1 month ago
11 Purifying Negative Karma 15-Apr-2004
Season 4 Episode 11
In explaining the general confession, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says that there are two types of regret. One type is useless because it only brings sufferin…
1 year, 1 month ago