Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
- Practicing Patience •
- Generating Bodhicitta •
- You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
- Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
- Motivation is Most Important •
- Live Your Life With Bodhicitta •
- How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even With Your Speech •
- The Ultimate Good Heart •
- Living With Bodhicitta •
- Pray to Benefit Others •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This multimedia collection presents chapters from Bodhisattva Attitude, a book that highlights the importance of motivation in our daily lives and activities.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Bodhisattva Attitude Multimedia: About the Series •
Everything Depends on Your Attitude •
Cutting the Concept of Permanence •
Give Up Stretching the Legs •
Four Wrong Concepts •
Bodhisattva Attitude •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Florence, Italy 1990
After a short discourse on emptiness, Rinpoche teaches tong-len, or taking and giving—the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Actualizing the Wisdom Realizing Emptiness •
Taking the Suffering of Others •
Giving Your Body to Others •
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington, New Jersey
A teaching given prior to a ceremony for generating the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Teachings on bodhicitta, adapted by T. Y. Alexander
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Instructions on tong-len, the practice of “taking and giving"; the quickest way to generate bodhicitta and achieve enlightenment
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Advice on Tong-len as a Preliminary Practice •
Tong-len: A Short Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This book highlights the importance of motivation in our daily lives and activities, in order to generate the mind of bodhicitta.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Bodhisattva Attitude •
Bodhisattva Attitude: Editor's Introduction •
The Verses •
The Teachings: Everything Depends on Your Attitude •
The Teachings: Cutting the Concept of Permanence •
The Teachings: Give Up Stretching the Legs •
The Teachings: Bodhisattva Attitude •
The Teachings: Four Wrong Concepts •
The Motivations: Everything Depends on Your Attitude •
The Motivations: Cutting the Concept of Permanence •
The Motivations: Give Up Stretching the Legs •
The Motivations: Bodhisattva Attitude •
The Motivations: Four Wrong Concepts •
Appendices and Bibliography •
Bodhisattva Attitude: Translations •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Happiness comes from bodhicitta, which is received by depending on the kindness of sentient beings
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2000
Our mother gave us this human rebirth and the opportunity to practice Dharma
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2000
A teaching on how to practice bodhicitta in daily life, given at the 33rd Kopan Meditation Course.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This booklet highlights the importance of motivation in our daily lives and activities, and contains excerpts from the book Bodhisattva Attitude, published by LYWA in 2012.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Bodhisattva Attitude: Introduction •
Bodhisattva Attitude: The Verses •
Bodhisattva Attitude: The Commentary •
Bodhisattva Attitude: The Meditation •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Deer Park, Madison, Wisconsin, 1999
How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
The Importance of Bodhicitta •
How to Use Depression to Develop Compassion •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
How every action with bodhicitta motivation collects infinite merit and creates the cause for enlightenment.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
