Preliminary Practices
Welcome to the journey to enlightenment. The aim of life is to benefit others and the highest benefit is to liberate sentient beings from suffering and its causes. For that one needs to achieve enlightenment.
Advice book
Verses to Inspire Offerings
While there is the Guru who is like a wish-granting jewel and the unimaginable wish-fulfilling tree,And the ever-undeceiving Rare Sublime Ones1 who effortlessly fulfill all wishes,Still to be dissatisfied and spend your body and wealth on what is non
Offering to the Sangha
You spent nine months in your mother’s womb and she experienced so much unbelievable pain when you were born. Then, for so many years, your parents sacrificed their lives for you and worried about you.
Water Bowls Practice
Keep doing the water bowls. Khen Rinpoche is not teasing when you ask something and he says, “Just do the water bowls,” because he knows this is what I like—this is what makes me happy.
How to Generate Merit by Offering Music, Such as Bell, Gong or Conch Shell
Rinpoche advises the benefits of offering musical sounds to the Buddha, and explains how to create the most extensive merit possible by first generating a bodhicitta motivation, then making the offering while reflecting on the emptiness of phenomena. The offering practice concludes with dedication of the merits and recitation of multiplying mantras that increase the merit by one hundred thousand.
Great Compassion
Advice to a person who was angry a lot; often yelling, getting drunk and even beating people close to him.
The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness
Rinpoche gave this advice about the good heart at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in June 2011.
Essential Advice
Dear Jenny,Hello! How are you? I hope everything is going well with you.
Why Compassion is Important
I met a Tibetan woman from Nepal, who is married to an ex-monk from Kopan Monastery. I think she is very compassionate. She said she usually wants to give money to the beggars, because she is compassionate.
Results of Compassion
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote the following to a university professor who was testing students after they meditated on compassion. Rinpoche commented on one of his questions about the nature of compassion.