The Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination
A teaching by Geshe Rabten on the twelve links which bind us to cyclic existence.
Topics:
Emptiness > Dependent Arising
Teachings
Sickness and Health
Advice on a wide range of illnesses, given to individuals with health problems who have written to Rinpoche for guidance.
Topics:
Sickness and Health
Addictions and Mental Illness
Acute Mental Illness
Daughter with Anorexia
Eating Disorder
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In Praise of Dependent Arising (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Rinpoche gives an oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa's text, In Praise of Dependent Arising, and teaches on emptiness, karma and bodhicitta
Topics:
Emptiness > Dependent Arising
Chapters:
Essence of Dharma, Purpose of Life
Practice of Compassion, Universal Responsibility, Bodhicitta Motivation, Dedication
Subduing the Mind, Equanimity Meditation
Cherishing Others, Asanga's Teachings
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Working in a Hospital
Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.
Topics:
Sickness and Health
Advice on Quitting Intoxicants
Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances
Topics:
Sickness and Health
Interview on Emptiness
Defining the correct view of subtle dependent arising, dependence upon name
Topics:
Emptiness > Dependent Arising
Meditation Against Drug Dependence
An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.
Topics:
Sickness and Health
Dealing with Cancer
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Topics:
Sickness and Health
Bodhicitta is the Best Medicine
The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
Topics:
Sickness and Health