Analyze the object of fear and worry Lama Yeshe gave this talk in Berkeley, California in 1983 after being asked to comment on how to deal with our fear and anxieties about the future in the context of the development of nuclear power and the nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Russia. While the situation todayContinue reading “Switch Your Mind from Emotion to Peace”
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Finding Peace in Everyday Life
THE MISTAKE WE MAKE We don’t practice what we know Lama Zopa Rinpoche explores the path to happiness through the practice of patience, right here and right now. Rinpoche gave these introductory teachings during Lama Yeshe’s profound weekend seminar on the death process held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1983, just five months before Lama Yeshe passed away. TheseContinue reading “Finding Peace in Everyday Life”
The Death Process
Recognizing What’s Going On These boisterous, punchy, direct, funny, loving and compassionate teachings are from a weekend seminar on death, the intermediate state and rebirth given by Lama Yeshe in Geneva, Switzerland in 1983. Particularly poignant is the fact they are among the very last teachings Lama gave in the West before Lama directly taught the profound meaning of death and impermanenceContinue reading “The Death Process”
The Nature of the Mind
Removing the Blankets One by One During 1983 Lama Yeshe continued to travel and teach constantly, this time in Italy, Spain, Italy again, India, America, France, back to Italy, Switzerland, and finally, India and Nepal. The teachings below are from a weekend seminar on death given by Lama in Geneva, Switzerland and published by LYWA as Life, Death andContinue reading “The Nature of the Mind”
The Best Answers Come Through Meditation
The Computer of Meditation The Best Answers Come Through Meditation presents Chapter 11 from Freedom Through Understanding and is based on teachings given by Lama Yeshe with Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Royal Holloway College in England in 1975 during the Lamas’ first trip to Europe. Edited by Nicholas Ribush. Multimedia presentation by Megan Evart. Whenever human problems arise,Continue reading “The Best Answers Come Through Meditation”
The Shortcomings of Attachment
All This Worry Comes From Attachment The Shortcomings of Attachment presents Chapter 8 from Freedom Through Understanding, edited by Nicholas Ribush and based on teachings given by Lama Yeshe at the Royal Holloway College, England, in 1975. Multimedia presentation created by Megan Evart. Sometimes you might think, “I want inner freedom; I want some kind of magic, higherContinue reading “The Shortcomings of Attachment”
The Importance of Motivation
Cultivating Pure Motivation The Importance of Motivation presents Chapter 5 from Freedom Through Understanding, edited by Nicholas Ribush and based on teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Royal Holloway College, England, in 1975. Multimedia presentation by Megan Evart. Before listening to this teaching you need to cultivate a pure motivation, because the action of listening to teachings hasContinue reading “The Importance of Motivation”
Giving & Taking on the Breath
Freak Out Your Ego and Attachment Giving and Taking on the Breath presents Chapter 9 from Freedom Through Understanding and is based on teachings given in 1975 by Lama Yeshe at the Royal Holloway College in England during the lamas’ first trip to England and edited by Nicholas Ribush. Multimedia presentation created by Megan Evart. In this chapter Lama YesheContinue reading “Giving & Taking on the Breath”
How To Meditate
MANTRA Focusing your mind into the here and now How to Meditate presents Chapter 4 from Freedom Through Understanding, edited by Nicholas Ribush and based on teachings given by Lama Yeshe at the Royal Holloway College, England, 1975. Multimedia presentation by Megan Evart. Mantra has the power to separate your body, speech and mind from ordinary, mundaneContinue reading “How To Meditate”
Give Up Stretching the Legs
Waking Up to the Dharma Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives commentary on a verse sung by the dakas and dakinis to awaken the tantric yogi or yogini from sleep. The advice is threefold: Give up clinging to this life and being too lazy to practice Dharma; give up clinging to samsaric pleasures as real happiness and becoming trapped in samsara; give up clinging to self-cherishingContinue reading “Give Up Stretching the Legs”
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