Kopan Course No. 51 Index Page

The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. Click on the links below to go directly to a particular lecture.

Introduction

Lecture 1: December 6

• A Star in the Daytime
• Becoming Free from Pervasive Compounding Suffering
• A Star in Daytime (Back to)
• Talking About Kopan
• The I and the Aggregates
• What You Are Doing Here in Kopan Is the Most Important Thing
• Helping Others Is Helping Ourselves
• Dedications

Lecture 2: December 7

• Defective View
• Like a Butter Lamp
• Like a Dew Drop, a Dream, Lightning, Clouds
• The Mind and Emptiness
• The Motivation for Listening to the Teachings
• The Buddha’s Great Compassion and His Mantra
• Dedications

Lecture 3: December 8

• The Uncontrolled Mind Causes So Much Suffering
• A Good Heart Is the Most Important Education (Sixteen Guidelines)
• The Buddha Manifests in Many Forms
• A Good Heart Is the Most Important Education (Back to)
• Subduing Our Mind, There Are no More Enemies
• Dedications

Lecture 4: December 10

• The Secret of the Mind
• Only in the Southern Continent Can We Practice Dharma
• Ignorance Exaggerates Good and Bad
• Meditating on How the I Exists
• Subduing the Mind, There Are No Enemies
• Dedications

Lecture 5: December 11

• Unless We Meet the Dharma, We Miss the Point
• In the City of Hallucination
• The Table Exists in Mere Name
• The Varying Subtleties of the Refuting Object
• The Guru Is the Most Powerful Object in Our Life
• All Existence Is Merely Labeled by the Mind
• Dedications

Lecture 6: December 12

• Knowing the Meaning of Life
• The Mind Is Like a Wish-Granting Jewel
• Early Kopan Stories
• The FPMT Grows
• Practicing the Awareness of the False I
• Don’t Cling to True Existence
• Dedications

Lecture 7: December 13

• Meditation on the Awareness of the Real I

Lecture 8: December 13 evening

• We Must Renounce This Life
• All Phenomena Are like the Reflection of the Moon
• Dedications

Lecture 9: December 14

• The Kindness of the Mother
• Aptos and the Dog
• Not Knowing When a Person Is Dead
• The Importance of Holy Objects
• The Kindness of the Mother (Back to)
• The Rice Seedling
• The Wheel of Life
• Dedications

Lecture 10: December 15

• Happiness and Suffering Are in Our Hands
• The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha
• Enlightenment Is in Our Hands
• How the Wheel of Life Came into Existence
• The Numberless Buddhas Can See Our Mind
• The Elements of the Wheel of Life
• The Twelve Links
• The Importance of Meditating on Emptiness
• What to Do After Leaving Kopan

Lecture 11: December 15 evening

• Saving Worms and Fish
• Practicing the Ten Virtues with Animal Liberation
• The Eight Mahayana Precepts
• Cherishing the Enemy
• Dedications

Lecture 12: December 18

• Preliminary Teachings to a Vajrasattva Jenang
• Purifying the Results of Killing
• Repaying the Kindness of Sentient Beings
• Endnotes

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