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        The FPMT is an organization devoted to preserving and spreading Mahayana Buddhism worldwide by creating opportunities to listen, reflect, meditate, practice and actualize the unmistaken teachings of the Buddha and based on that experience spreading the Dharma to sentient beings. We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility and service. We are committed to creating harmonious environments and helping all beings develop their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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      • Die Stiftung zur Erhaltung der Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) ist eine Organisation, die sich weltweit für die Erhaltung und Verbreitung des Mahayana-Buddhismus einsetzt, indem sie Möglichkeiten schafft, den makellosen Lehren des Buddha zuzuhören, über sie zur reflektieren und zu meditieren und auf der Grundlage dieser Erfahrung das Dharma unter den Lebewesen zu verbreiten.

        Wir bieten integrierte Schulungswege an, durch denen der Geist und das Herz der Menschen in ihr höchstes Potential verwandelt werden zum Wohl der anderen – inspiriert durch eine Haltung der universellen Verantwortung und dem Wunsch zu dienen. Wir haben uns verpflichtet, harmonische Umgebungen zu schaffen und allen Wesen zu helfen, ihr volles Potenzial unendlicher Weisheit und grenzenlosen Mitgefühls zu verwirklichen.

        Unsere Organisation basiert auf der buddhistischen Tradition von Lama Tsongkhapa von Tibet, so wie sie uns von unseren Gründern Lama Thubten Yeshe und Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche gelehrt wird.

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      • La Fundación para la preservación de la tradición Mahayana (FPMT) es una organización que se dedica a preservar y difundir el budismo Mahayana en todo el mundo, creando oportunidades para escuchar, reflexionar, meditar, practicar y actualizar las enseñanzas inconfundibles de Buda y en base a esa experiencia difundir el Dharma a los seres.

        Proporcionamos una educación integrada a través de la cual las mentes y los corazones de las personas se pueden transformar en su mayor potencial para el beneficio de los demás, inspirados por una actitud de responsabilidad y servicio universales. Estamos comprometidos a crear ambientes armoniosos y ayudar a todos los seres a desarrollar todo su potencial de infinita sabiduría y compasión.

        Nuestra organización se basa en la tradición budista de Lama Tsongkhapa del Tíbet como nos lo enseñaron nuestros fundadores Lama Thubten Yeshe y Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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      • L’organisation de la FPMT a pour vocation la préservation et la diffusion du bouddhisme du mahayana dans le monde entier. Elle offre l’opportunité d’écouter, de réfléchir, de méditer, de pratiquer et de réaliser les enseignements excellents du Bouddha, pour ensuite transmettre le Dharma à tous les êtres. Nous proposons une formation intégrée grâce à laquelle le cœur et l’esprit de chacun peuvent accomplir leur potentiel le plus élevé pour le bien d’autrui, inspirés par le sens du service et une responsabilité universelle. Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement harmonieux et à aider tous les êtres à épanouir leur potentiel illimité de compassion et de sagesse. Notre organisation s’appuie sur la tradition guéloukpa de Lama Tsongkhapa du Tibet, telle qu’elle a été enseignée par nos fondateurs Lama Thoubtèn Yéshé et Lama Zopa Rinpoché.

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      • L’FPMT è un organizzazione il cui scopo è preservare e diffondere il Buddhismo Mahayana nel mondo, creando occasioni di ascolto, riflessione, meditazione e pratica dei perfetti insegnamenti del Buddha, al fine di attualizzare e diffondere il Dharma fra tutti gli esseri senzienti.

        Offriamo un’educazione integrata, che può trasformare la mente e i cuori delle persone nel loro massimo potenziale, per il beneficio di tutti gli esseri, ispirati da un’attitudine di responsabilità universale e di servizio.

        Il nostro obiettivo è quello di creare contesti armoniosi e aiutare tutti gli esseri a sviluppare in modo completo le proprie potenzialità di infinita saggezza e compassione.

        La nostra organizzazione si basa sulla tradizione buddhista di Lama Tsongkhapa del Tibet, così come ci è stata insegnata dai nostri fondatori Lama Thubten Yeshe e Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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        “护持大乘法脉基金会”( 英文简称:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) 是一个致力于护持和弘扬大乘佛法的国际佛教组织。我们提供听闻,思维,禅修,修行和实证佛陀无误教法的机会,以便让一切众生都能够享受佛法的指引和滋润。

        我们全力创造和谐融洽的环境, 为人们提供解行并重的完整佛法教育,以便启发内在的环宇悲心及责任心,并开发内心所蕴藏的巨大潜能 — 无限的智慧与悲心 — 以便利益和服务一切有情。

        FPMT的创办人是图腾耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我们所修习的是由两位上师所教导的,西藏喀巴大师的佛法传承。

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        護持大乘法脈基金會”( 英文簡稱:FPMT。全名:Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition )是一個致力於護持和弘揚大乘佛法的國際佛教組織。我們提供聽聞,思維,禪修,修行和實證佛陀無誤教法的機會,以便讓一切眾生都能夠享受佛法的指引和滋潤。

        我們全力創造和諧融洽的環境,為人們提供解行並重的完整佛法教育,以便啟發內在的環宇悲心及責任心,並開發內心所蘊藏的巨大潛能 — 無限的智慧與悲心 –– 以便利益和服務一切有情。

        FPMT的創辦人是圖騰耶喜喇嘛和喇嘛梭巴仁波切。我們所修習的是由兩位上師所教導的,西藏喀巴大師的佛法傳承。

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May
1
2024

New Podcast Episode: #27 Manjushri’s Advice to Lama Tsongkhapa – The Quickest Way to Actualize Realizations

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.”

Click to play this episode on FPMT.org or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app

Episode 27: Manjushri’s Advice to Lama Tsongkhapa – The Quickest Way to Actualize Realizations

In this episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave December 11th, 2022, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.

Rinpoche explains that Lama Tsongkhapa asked Manjushri “what is the quickest way to actualize realizations on the path to enlightenment?” Manjushri replied that there are four things. First, purify the obscurations. Obscurations can be purified because they are not in the nature of the mind. The mind’s true nature is buddha nature; it is completely empty of existing in the way it appears to us. The more we purify the obscurations, the more realizations come–this is because of the power of the mind. In the West it might seem like if you have a mind then it has to have attachment, it has to have anger and ignorance, it has to have the self-cherishing thought, but the Buddha taught that the mind’s true nature is totally free from attachment, anger and ignorance. The best purification is pleasing the guru. Everything depends completely on correctly devoting to the virtuous friend.

Second, collect the cause, which is virtue. There are many practices to help do this, such as mandala offerings, but the main practice is following the guru’s advice and wishes. Third, one-pointedly make requests to the guru to receive blessings of the path in your heart and to understand Dharma. “One-pointedly” means looking at the guru as a buddha, using quotations and reasoning. Through your requests, you will receive blessings like rainfall, nourishing the seed of realizations in your heart.

Fourth, meditation. But meditation alone is not enough to achieve enlightenment. If you think like this, this is not understanding how to practice lamrim, how to achieve liberation from samsara how to go to enlightenment. Manjushri said that if you correctly practice with all the support–purifying, collecting merits and one-pointedly requesting the guru–then enlightenment happens.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.

Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche was the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Apr
10
2023

New Podcast Episode: #25 Motivate with Bodhicitta and Dedicate with Emptiness so Your Life Is Not Wasted

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

Click to play this episode on FPMT.org or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app

Episode 25: Motivate with Bodhicitta and Dedicate with Emptiness so Your Life Is Not Wasted

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave September 9, 2017, at Light of the Path Retreat, United States.

When one is upset or afraid—and also happy—remember bodhicitta so life is not wasted and everything we experience is dedicated to others, Rinpoche advises. When we recite mantras with a bodhicitta motivation, it becomes the cause to achieve enlightenment. Afterward, dedicate the merit for oneself to achieve enlightenment for all sentient beings, so that the merit becomes unceasing, like a drop of water added to the ocean. Also, we can seal the dedication with emptiness so the merit won’t be subject to being destroyed by anger or heresy. Since beginningless rebirths we have been believing the hallucination that everything we experience, including the I, is real; this ignorance is the root of our suffering. Dedicating with emptiness leaves positive imprints on our mind, even if we don’t fully understand the words we are saying at the time.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

  • Tagged: essential extracts podcast, podcast
Mar
27
2023

New Podcast Episode: #24 The Most Scary Things Are the Beginningless and Endless Sufferings of Samsara

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

Click to play this episode on FPMT.org or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app

Episode 24: The Most Scary Things Are the Beginningless and Endless Sufferings of Samsara

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave May 27, 2019, at Institut Vajra Yogini, France.

When we or others are experiencing sickness and pain, or obstacles of any kind, to recite the Heart Sutra while remembering that these obstacles are empty of existing from their own side is a powerful meditation for pacifying obstacles. The essence of Buddha’s 84,000 teachings is emptiness, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains, is set out in the Essence of Wisdom, also known as the Heart Sutra. Rinpoche reminds us that before reciting this sutra, we must remember the sufferings of the beings in the six realms, including ourselves, which have been happening from beginningless rebirths. That is a most scary thing. Another most scary thing is that if we don’t realize emptiness, we will have to experience all these sufferings again! As Rinpoche says, compared to this beginningless and endless suffering, the problems of this life are nothing. Therefore, to eliminate the root of samara and put an end to all our suffering forever, we need to listen, reflect, and meditate on the Heart Sutra.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

  • Tagged: essential extracts podcast, podcast
Mar
13
2023

New Podcast Episode: #23 How to Maximize Your Offerings Through Visualization

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

Click to play this episode on FPMT.org or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app

Episode 23: How to Maximize Your Offerings Through Visualization

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave September 15, 2017, at Light of the Path Retreat, United States.

The Buddha said that we get exactly the same merit from making an offering, no matter how tiny, to a statue or painting of the Buddha as we would from making an offering to the actual Buddha. How can we maximize our offerings to be of most benefit? Rinpoche says that even if we have nothing more than a clean bowl in which to offer water—we can visualize this offering as nectar, since a buddha actually sees nectar, and in this way we collect unbelievable merit. Rinpoche also discusses how to offer a mandala. By precisely visualizing each item in it, we get the merit of having actually offered whatever it is we visualized, not what we actually offered, which may just be a small pile of grain or sand. By doing purification with Vajrasattva and collecting merit with mandala offerings, gradually we will be able to change our mind, which once seemed impossible to change, from selfishness into bodhicitta.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

  • Tagged: essential extracts podcast, podcast
Feb
27
2023

New Podcast Episode: #22 The Unbelievable Merit of Offering to the Pores of the Guru

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

Click to play this episode on FPMT.org or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app

Episode 22: The Unbelievable Merit of Offering to the Pores of the Guru

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave April 6, 2018, at Great Stupa Of Universal Compassion, Australia.

Rinpoche discusses the meaning of “pores of the guru” as expressed in the section on the guru’s qualities in Lama Chopa. Pores of the guru not only refers to other disciples of our own guru, but also to their family and animals. All of these pores are a higher object of offering than the numberless buddhas, Dharma, and sangha and the numberless statues, stupas, and scriptures. In the large monasteries, there are thousands of sangha, and when we make offerings to them—even tea, while thinking that they are the pores of our guru, for example, of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we collect unbelievable merit.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

  • Tagged: essential extracts podcast, podcast
Feb
6
2023

New Podcast Episode: #21 Experience Harm in a Positive Way

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 21: Experience Harm in a Positive Way

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave May 10, 2018, at Great Stupa Of Universal Compassion, Australia.

To practice the paramita of patience, we need someone who makes us angry or doesn’t give us what we want. Practicing the paramita of patience enables us to achieve enlightenment. Therefore, the person who makes us angry gives us enlightenment, and then we are able to bring numberless sentient beings to enlightenment as well. In this way, we can see that the kindness of the person who makes us angry is like a limitless sky. There’s no way to retaliate back; you remain totally positive. We can think similarly when experiencing other heavy negative karmas, such as cancer. By experiencing the cancer, we are finishing the negative karma and won’t have to go to the lower realms and suffer for eons. It becomes purification. Further, we can experience the cancer on behalf of all sentient beings and use it to achieve enlightenment. This makes our cancer most unbelievably positive and beneficial for every sentient being.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Jan
23
2023

New Podcast Episode: #20 Every Moment Is an Opportunity to Practice Dharma

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 20: Every Moment Is an Opportunity to Practice Dharma

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave December 12, 2018, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.

Even the most mundane activities of daily life provide us the opportunity to practice Dharma, Rinpoche says. While we are working, being busy, or even arguing with someone, part of the mind can recognize that what appears to be real is actually a total hallucination. The truly existent I and other people are not there but appear to be real due to our ignorance. To prevent this mistaken view, we must not cling to things that appear true; we must remember that what appears real is not—like a mirage. Remembering this allows us to practice mindfulness of emptiness in all situations so we do not experience oceans of suffering in each realm without end.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Jan
9
2023

New Podcast Episode: #19 All Problems Can Be Utilized in the Path to Enlightenment

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 19: All Problems Can Be Utilized in the Path to Enlightenment

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave September 8, 2019, at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.

It is impossible to escape problems while suffering in samsara, but we can utilize any disturbing experience as we progress on the path to enlightenment. Rinpoche explains how we can take on any suffering and use it to destroy our ego and self-cherishing thought. This makes it possible to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings and then bring them to enlightenment as well. When we practice lojong (thought transformation), we need problems, even horrible ones like cancer. When suffering, including when you are dying, think over and over again, “By my experiencing this, may all sentient beings be free from sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and defilements, and achieve enlightenment.” As His Holiness the Dalai Lama often says, dying with bodhicitta is the best way to die. Rinpoche quotes several masters to illustrate how to think and practice when we experience suffering.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
26
2022

New Podcast Episode: #18 Everything the Guru Does Brings Us to Enlightenment

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 18: Everything the Guru Does Brings Us to Enlightenment

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave September 22, 2018, at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.

The guru is the essence of all buddhas, Rinpoche reminds us. Therefore, everything the guru does is the holy actions of all the buddhas. It is essential to remember these two things, otherwise we can view our guru as an ordinary being when anger, attachment, or heresy arises, and we can destroy our happiness—right up to enlightenment—by believing they are making mistakes. In reality there is no greater kindness than that of the guru manifesting in an ordinary aspect according to our impure karma. This is what frees us from samsara and brings us to enlightenment and enables us to do the same for the numberless sentient beings. We must remember this always.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Dec
12
2022

New Podcast Episode: #17 Give Away Your Body, Enjoyments, and Merit to Others

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 17: Give Away Your Body, Enjoyments, and Merit to Others

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave December 7, 2019, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.

We can generate loving-kindness by offering the numberless sentient beings in every realm our body, enjoyments, and merit. When we give all of our past, present, and future merit to the numberless sentient beings, they get whatever they want and whatever they need. This enables them to become Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, Maitreya, Chenrezig, or any deity. Rinpoche explains that when we do this, we collect skies of merit and purify the negative karma we have collected since beginningless rebirths and come closer to buddhahood. Offering charity in this way is the happiest life, Rinpoche assures us.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Nov
28
2022

New Podcast Episode: #16 Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 16: Meditate on Emptiness While Walking

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave December 13, 2018, at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.

Walking for exercise, sightseeing, or shopping can all be used to meditate on impermanence and emptiness. Here Rinpoche offers guided meditations on how, in particular, to think about emptiness, to habituate our mind in a positive way to seeing everything that appears to be real as false. While walking, we can meditate on emptiness in three ways: By seeing the hallucination as a hallucination, by looking at everything we encounter, including ourselves, as merely labeled, and by looking at everything as empty. These meditations free us from the oceans of unimaginable sufferings of samsara forever in order to help all sentient beings become free from these sufferings as well.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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Nov
14
2022

New Podcast Episode: #15 All Our Happiness Comes from Those Who Harm Us

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There is a new episode of the Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast. You can listen to the new episode on our website or find it in your favorite podcast app by searching for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts.” New episodes are released every other Monday.

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Episode 15: All Our Happiness Comes from Those Who Harm Us

In this week’s episode we listen to a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave June 30, 2019, at Ganden Buddhist Centre, Latvia.

What is the benefit of having compassion for those who mistreat us? And how is our survival, comfort, happiness, and, ultimately, our enlightenment dependent on the kindness of others, especially those who we consider an enemy? All of our past, present, and future happiness come from our virtuous actions. These come from the buddhas’ holy actions, which come from a buddha, which come from a bodhisattva, which come from bodhicitta, which come from great compassion. Great compassion comes from those sentient beings who are always angry at, criticize, abuse, and harm us. Rinpoche explains that the benefit they offer us is like the limitless sky. They fulfill all our wishes. All our happiness comes from sentient beings.

Listen to the podcast now on our website or search for “Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast” in your podcast app.


Learn more about our podcasts, including the ongoing Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings podcast, by visiting our Podcasts page: fpmt.org/media/podcasts/. You will be able to find new episodes of the Essential Extracts podcast on FPMT.org when they are released.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization dedicated to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values worldwide through teaching, meditation and community service.

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