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The Power of the Heart Sutra
Reading and reciting The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, more simply known as the Heart Sutra, is a powerful way to create the conditions for having a direct realization of emptiness. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that the ... Read more »
Being Attached to Sex Has Not Freed You from the Oceans of Samsaric Sufferings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this video reminding listeners that while this teaching is being given specifically for ordained ... Read more »
Benefiting the Animals– Rejoicing in a Year of Support Offered
Benefiting animals in any way possible is a high priority for FPMT and one of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the organization. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained many ways that we can benefit animals, not just by saving them ... Read more »
FPMT Community Celebrates the One-Year Anniversary of the “Healing the World” Prayerathon
The FPMT community celebrated the one-year anniversary of “Healing the World with Thangtong Gyalpo’s Prayer” on July 31–August 1, 2021, with Sangha and students worldwide joining the online prayerathon. The International Mahayana Institute (IMI), FPMT’s community of monks and nuns, ... Read more »
Different People Need Different Methods
Lama Thubten Yeshe, who founded the FPMT organization with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, excelled at helping Western students connect with the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. Here Lama Yeshe offers advice on how to understand the different schools and traditions of ... Read more »
Advice on Group Water Bowl Retreats at Home
Among the preliminary practices, only that of water bowl offerings can be done in a group practice and allows one to add the numbers accumulated by the group’s participants into one’s own count. In 2020, a center director wrote to ... Read more »
Support to Sangha in 2021, an Ongoing Commitment to the ‘Real Heroes’
In Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s May 10, 2021 thought transformation teaching, he explained that the Sangha are the “real heroes” among us because they are working to defeat the delusions and thus living the best lives as human beings. Supporting monks ... Read more »
A Zillion Thanks to the Sangha for Reciting Manis During the Pandemic
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this teaching by referencing this quote by Thogme Sango in Thirty-Seven Practices ... Read more »
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this teaching explaining that while he’s offering this teaching specifically to the Sangha at ... Read more »
Renounce the Thought of Seeing Samsara as a Beautiful Park
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this teaching by reminding us that the perfect human rebirth doesn’t last long. This ... Read more »
Practicing Morality Is Easy When You Know Real Pleasure Is a Hallucination
Lama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching: Rinpoche begins this teaching by reminding us of the motivation he established last session, particularly for ... Read more »