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Advice About Suffering

September 26, 2023June 5, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 2 minutesGeneral advice paraphrased by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Categories Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche Tags criticism, purification, suffering, wealth

Compassion is the Root of the Teachings

May 12, 2026June 1, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 20 minutesStatements from Sutra Relating to Eating Meat

Categories Uncategorized Tags animals, compassion, money, suffering

Four Noble Truths

May 12, 2026June 1, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 23 minutesTeachings about the four noble truths, bodhicitta, the five paths and ten levels, and the six perfections

Categories Uncategorized Tags aggregates, desire, four noble truths, ignorance, karma, suffering

Part One: Mind Training – Developing Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026May 31, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 27 minutesA commentary on the emptiness section of the Seven Point Mind Training text

Categories Uncategorized Tags accumulation, bodhicitta, lama tsongkhapa, liberation, morality, motivation, patience, purification, samsara (cyclic existence), self-cherishing, suffering

Chapter Five: The Third Point – Transforming Adverse Circumstances into the Path

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 9 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags happiness, merit, sickness and health, suffering

Chapter Four: The Second Point – The Actual Practice,Training in Bodhicitta

May 12, 2026May 25, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 34 minutesA Commentary on the Seven-Point Mind Training

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, emptiness (shunyata), kindness of mother sentient beings, samsara (cyclic existence), self-cherishing, selfishness, seven point cause and effect, suffering, tong-len (exchanging self and others), truly existent

Part 2: Renunciation

May 12, 2026May 24, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 27 minutesA commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa’s text which covers the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment.

Categories Uncategorized Tags bodhicitta, dissatisfaction, four noble truths, renunciation, samsara (cyclic existence), suffering

Four Noble Truths

May 11, 2023April 22, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 10 minutesA teaching given on the Four Noble Truths in Dharamsala, India, October 7, 1981.

Categories HH Dalai Lama, Teachings From Tibet Tags four noble truths, suffering

In Search of a Meaningful Life

May 11, 2023April 22, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 11 minutesThis teaching was given at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Center, New Delhi, on July 4, 1979.

Categories Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Teachings From Tibet Tags bodhicitta, dependent origination, ignorance, karma, materialism, patience, samsara (cyclic existence), suffering

A Commentary on Right Effort

February 13, 2024April 14, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 11 minutesA teaching by Geshe Lama Konchog on applying the force of right effort to our practice given at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.

Categories Geshe Lama Konchog Tags bodhisattva, enlightenment, generosity (charity), lower realms, retreat, samsara (cyclic existence), suffering

Equalizing Ourselves with Others

May 11, 2023April 13, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is an excerpt from a teaching by Ribur Rinpoche given at Watsonville, CA in June, 2002.

Categories Ribur Rinpoche Tags equilibrium, happiness, self-cherishing, suffering

Renunciation

May 11, 2023April 12, 2017 by TFTblog

Reading Time: 11 minutesA teaching by Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche in New Delhi, India, 1979 on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita.

Categories Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche, Teachings From Tibet Tags death, impermanence, karma, renunciation, suffering

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