Renewing Your Support Thank you for continuing your support as a Friend of FPMT and helping us achieve the greatest benefit for Dharma students and communities around the world. Translate* *powered by Google Translate Translation of pages on fpmt.org is…
Renewing Your Support Thank you for continuing your support as a Friend of FPMT and helping us achieve the greatest benefit for Dharma students and communities around the world. Translate* *powered by Google Translate Translation of pages on fpmt.org is…
PRACTICING DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE July-December 2017 In 2008, Merry Colony, who at the time was director of FPMT Education Services, was looking to develop an education program that captured the essence of the work of the department. “FPMT’s mission…
In February 2017, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave a three-and-a-half hour teaching at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, on the essence of lojong, the Tibetan word for “thought transformation” or “mind training.” In this new Living in the Path module “Transforming…
FPMT Education Services would like to remind students about an essential practice, Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities, a collection of daily bodhichitta mindfulness practices. In Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta in Daily Activities, Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how…
The achievement of both liberation from samsara and enlightenment depend on realizing emptiness—how the “I” and all phenomena do not exist at all from their own side, even though this is how they appear to us ordinary sentient beings. In…
From August 20 to September 17, Lama Zopa Rinpoche will teach in Black Mountain, North Carolina, US, at the fifth annual Light of the Path retreat, hosted by Kadampa Center. This massive Dharma undertaking requires the support of dozens of…
The foundation of the path to enlightenment is the realization of guru devotion—seeing the guru as a buddha. On the basis of this, one makes offerings, offers service, and most importantly, requests advice and follows it. There is no quicker…
In “Abandon Stretching the Legs,” a module of the Living in the Path program, Lama Zopa Rinpoche tells us to give up being lazy in our pursuit of understanding the nature of samsara and samsaric pleasures and to generate bodhichitta…
Registration is now open for the extended 2017 Light of the Path hosted by Kadampa Center in North Carolina, USA, and taking place August 20-September 17. We hope that many students will be able to attend in person or participate…
“The Seven-Limb Prayer” is found in, and is the basis of, many prayers and practice texts, including “The King of Prayers” and Lama Chöpa . This powerful method was taught by the Buddha as a means to accumulate merit and…
Toward the end of the Vajra Cutter Sutra , the following verse is found: A star, a defective view, a flame, An illusion, a drop of dew, a bubble, A dream, a flash of lightning, a cloud: See causative phenomena…
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