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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.

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        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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RINPOCHE’S CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND SCHEDULE

NEWSFLASH – Lama Zopa Rinpoche has kindly agreed to step in to teach at Lama Yeshe Ling and Vajrapani Institute after Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche’s health problems resulted in cancellation of his teaching schedule…

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THE REAL PROFESSIONAL

“It’s not sufficient in our life only to know how to do things externally. If you really want happiness, if you’re really looking for peace and happiness, inner happiness, that’s not sufficient. You need to be professional inside.”

Wonderful new teaching by Rinpoche, relevant to everyone…


Rinpoche meditating with children in the Tara Institute Kids Sunday School (Australia, June 06)

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RINPOCHE INTERESTED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Rinpoche went to the cinema to see “An Inconvenient Truth” [the Al Gore film about global warming]…


Rinpoche Offering Food at Gelato Mania (USA, July 2006. Photographer Bob Cayton)

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USING SICKNESS FOR THE PATH

Helpful advice from Rinpoche…


Rinpoche visited Bea Ribush, Nick and Alison Ribush’s mother who is 92. Bea has been a student of Lama Yeshe since 1973. (Australia, Jun 2006)

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RINPOCHE CARRYING MOTHERS AND FATHERS

“…here I am carrying 400 of my fathers and mothers on my back”


Rinpoche carrying mothers and fathers (USA, July 2006)

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LOGOS

“The logo is like feng shui. The logo has an effect to the organization…”

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RINPOCHE’S CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND SCHEDULE

For the latest schedule and details of how to book for these events, please contact the center directly or go to https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/schedule/

Aug 4-16 – Lama Yeshe Ling, Canada

  • Aug 4 – Public Talk – Radical Action in Troubled Times: Compassion in Action
  • Aug 5-7 – Teachings on Good Heart, Awakened Mind: Bodhicitta teachings
  • Aug 11-13 – Yamantaka Solitary Hero Initation
  • Aug 16 – White Tara Initiation

 

August 20 – Sept 17 – Vajrapani Institute, Boulder Creek, California, USA

  • Three Principles of the Path – August 20, 22, 23
  • Guhyasamaja Initiation and Commentary
    • Initiation – August 25 – 27
    • Commentary – August 30 – September 5
  • Vajrayogini Initiation – September 17

 

November/December, Kopan Monastery, Nepal – Teachings during the November Course

 

THE REAL PROFESSIONAL

This is a wonderfully relevant teaching given by Rinpoche in Portland, USA in May, and which Ven Roger immediately asked to be made available for us all. It is available in a concise form titled The Real Professional, which I highly recommend to centers to use to bring the Dharma to new students. The full teaching (which of course is even better!) is also available – How to Be a Real Professional. Both can be read and downloaded here.

 
Rinpoche meditating with children in the Tara Institute Kids Sunday School (Australia, June 06)

Excerpt: “It’s not sufficient in our life only to know how to do things externally. Whatever our profession is – business or engineering or whatever, being a physician, a doctor, a professional having studied at university, a professional having studied at college how to do things in life, studied how to be a secretary, or how to be a director and run a company or how to be an accountant, all these things, how to clean, how to cook, all these things learnt at school or college or whatever. So what you learn, this profession is only external, how to do things externally. That’s not enough. That’s not sufficient. If you really want happiness, if you’re really looking for peace and happiness, inner happiness, that’s not sufficient. You need to be professional inside. You need to be professional mentally, you need inner professionalism. So a person may have all this education from college, university, how to do this, how to do that, how to be a business person and so forth, but if they are missing the inner profession then what is missing is mentally how to live life, how to do everything. The real profession is missing. That is the positive attitude, living life with this peaceful, happy, healthy mind, non-ignorance, non-anger, non-attachment, and especially with the thought of cherishing others, the ultimate good heart, the thought of cherishing others, unstained by the self-cherishing thought, the selfish mind. Without this inner professionalism, this inner qualification, without this, then what happens? Even if you succeed in the external world, in business or whatever, even though you may be externally successful your mind is not becoming happier and happier, it doesn’t become more and more peaceful, more and more satisfied, more and more fulfilled – that doesn’t happen. There’s more and more problems, more and more unhappiness.

…So you can see that there are two things in how to live life: external professionalism and the other very important, the most important way to live life – Dharma. Living life with Dharma, the mind becoming Dharma.”

RINPOCHE INTERESTED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

From Ven Holly Ansett:

“Rinpoche, Ven Roger plus all the Sangha in the Santa Cruz area (about 19), plus about 15-20 others all went to the movies recently to see “An Inconvenient Truth” [the Al Gore film about global warming]… quite an amazing event. We took over the whole theater, a sea of red and malas clicking, afterwards we walked up to have gelato, the Santa Cruzians thought we were doing some demonstration…

I think this is the third film Rinpoche has ever seen in a theater…”

 
Rinpoche Offering Food at Gelato Mania (USA, July 2006. Photographer Bob Cayton)

The previous films were Seven Years in Tibet, and one (title forgotten!) about people masquerading as priests and escaping… Rinpoche also watched Pretty Woman – backwards! Rinpoche at the time had not met Richard Gere (who stars in the film), and students had been talking about Richard Gere, saying he was a Dharma student and wanted to show Rinpoche the movie, but when they put in the video it was at end of the movie so Rinpoche said let’s watch it backwards – so they did!

WHAT YOU CAN DO
I asked Elaine Brook of Shenphen Thubten Choling, FPMT’s centre for socially and ecologically-engaged Buddhism, for another helpful tip on this issue:

“The problem is so vast and the urgency so great that the advice which suggests you turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or switch off lights and standbys when they are not needed, or go vegetarian for one day a week seems, well, ridiculous. Global warming is probably the greatest threat our species has ever faced. The sheer scale of the processes under way in the atmosphere and the oceans make it hard not to view anything an individual does to reduce emissions as being too little too late.

Not true.

The astonishing fact is that each of us can have an immediate impact on the production of greenhouse gases, and if enough of us act together in these minor ways, the cumulative effect will be dramatic. That’s because so much of the way we live our lives is wasteful and, to put it bluntly, thoughtless. It takes nothing to switch off a lamp, unplug the phone charger, take a shorter shower, cook without preheating the oven, skip the pre-wash part of the dishwasher cycle, or, often, walk or bike instead of drive. And they all save money, which is one of the rather striking things about reducing your ecological footprint – the standard way of measuring the CO2 emissions each person is responsible for.

And, it’s a wonderful way to engage in the Practice of Compassion;
first rejoice that you have so many different ways to choose from, as well as the opportunity to maybe one day do them all.
then, the practice, followed by dedication to all the sentient beings whose suffering has been reduced by the action.

lots of love, Elaine Brook”

USING SICKNESS FOR THE PATH

Excerpt from this brief and very helpful advice, available to read or download in full from here.

Train the mind in the following ways:

  • I am experiencing this problem, this sickness, on behalf of others.
    (To think in this way is very important.)
  • I am experiencing this problem because I have created the cause. I am finishing the karma that I have created so I will not experience suffering in the future.
  • This experience is helping me to practice Dharma.
  • These are the blessings of the Guru helping me to purify.
  • I am purifying. This is like doing Vajrasattva retreat or hundreds of thousands of prostrations. Besides that, this is helping me to meditate on bodhicitta and emptiness. It is like doing the preliminary practices.
  • This practice is done for others, so I accumulate numberless merits because others are numberless.
  • With emptiness and bodhicitta the practice is very powerful. I accumulate even more merits than doing the preliminary practices because the practice is done for others.
 
Rinpoche visited Bea Ribush, Nick and Alison Ribush’s mother who is 92. Bea has been a student of Lama Yeshe since 1973. (Australia, Jun 2006)


Rinpoche with Bea at the 4th Kopan course in 1973

Also think: This problem is the best medicine. This problem, which is used to develop bodhicitta (by thinking that it is being experienced for others) and emptiness, is the best medicine. This is because you finish with the sickness and also with its causes, which are karma and delusions.

Also: This problem is making me develop compassion; thus I can achieve enlightenment very quickly because I am accumulating infinite merits.

Today many people are dying, even people without cancer, without AIDS, many very healthy people. So even without cancer the time of death can come at any moment. So it is necessary to purify and accumulate merits.

RINPOCHE CARRYING MOTHERS AND FATHERS

From Ven Holly Ansett:

During a recent animal liberation (the Sangha in Rinpoche’s house in California offer an animal liberation three times each month on behalf of any of Rinpoche’s students who are sick), after the Sangha and students finished the animal liberation at 5pm we left the 400 worms in the buckets, as Rinpoche often wants to do further circumambulations and prayers for the little worms himself.

 
Rinpoche carrying mothers and fathers (USA, July 2006)

So at 9pm Rinpoche came down and spent a few hours circumambulating the stupa at his house. Rinpoche had found a broom to be able to carry both buckets with all the worms inside at the same time.

Ven Roger came out to take a picture and Rinpoche said:

“In India when ones parents are too old to walk then their children carry them on their back in this way, father on one side in a basket and mother on the other side in a basket. So here I am carrying 400 of my fathers and mothers on my back”

LOGOS

Recent advice from Rinpoche, commenting on a center’s design for its logo:

“Dragons are very very important to make the center strong. Sikkim was taken over by India, of course it was based on karma, but interestingly Bhutan which is also a small country, was not taken over, although India wants to very much. Bhutan has a dragon as a symbol on their money, airline and so on, and this is maybe one reason why the country is so strong.”

Previously (in July 2004), Rinpoche has said:

“When I make letterheads for centers, monasteries and so forth, it all has great significance – based on the two truths, wisdom and method, rupakaya and dharmakaya.

The reason why I make jewels in the logos is for wealth, prosperity for the centers. Without money, one cannot do anything. Money along with compassion and wisdom can benefit sentient beings.

The logo is like feng shui. The logo has an effect to the organization. It is like feng shui, logos have an effect. Logos should be very meaningful. A logo is not just for identification. It is more than that. You can have a toilet (as a logo). You can have a piece of bone as a logo. Actually, melting ice cream running off the fingers would be a good logo.”

NB: centers or study groups thinking about their logos can have a look at Logo Guidelines and logos designed by Rinpoche in the FPMT Affiliates Area.


RINPOCHE BLESSING MALAS

Rinpoche preparing for a teaching tour – some of the malas which Ven Roger travels with for Rinpoche to give as gifts! (USA, 2006)

CENTER PROMOTION, RINPOCHE-STYLE

While Rinpoche was at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala earlier this year, Rinpoche was asked to help promote the centre…! (India, Mar 2006)

with love,
Claire
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If you cherish another person, another sentient being, there is enlightenment and you cause them to achieve every happiness. If you don’t cherish them, there is no enlightenment for you. Therefore, this person, this one sentient being, is the most precious one in one’s own life. Therefore, what is called I needs to be let go forever. And what is called other, even one sentient being, that is to be cherished forever.

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