This Life Can Stop at Any Time
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Teachings
We Need Mindfulness to Ascertain Impermanence
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
The Cycle of Death and Rebirth
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Waterbowl Offerings
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Attitude to Work
Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.
Topics:
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Attitude to Work
Bodhisattva Attitude
Motivation for Paying Tax
The Real Purpose of Our Life
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path in Business
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Impermanence and Death
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Death Can Come at Any Time
Death Can Happen Suddenly
Death Comes Suddenly
Death Meditation
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How to Offer a Mandala
A compilation of teachings on the mandala offering, a practice that pacifies all hindrances to temporal and ultimate happiness
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Chapters:
Brief Instructions for the Preliminary Practices
A guide to accomplishing the recommended preliminary practices
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Illness and Death Are Natural
A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death
Impermanence and Death
Establishing the value of meditating on death and impermanence as motivation for practice and preparation for death.
Topics:
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death