Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

> The meaning of blessings is transforming one’s own mind into the whole path to enlightenment of method and wisdom with the goal of transforming these into the Dharmakaya and the Rupakaya. So the meaning of blessing contains all this. > > > -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains what it means to receive the blessings of the guru, and then recites Lama Tsongkhapa’s lamrim prayer, the Foundation of All Good Qualities, in Tibetan. These teachings were given by Rinpoche at the Thirty-third Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2000. Read along with the transcript on our website [https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/day-3-guru-devotion-how-mind-labels-qa]. [https://lamayeshewisdomarchive.blubrry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Rinpoche-Taos-1024x473.jpg]

> All existence are condensed into two truths. MANI signifies the truth for all-obscuring mind, the dependent arising, and PADME is the truth for the absolute wisdom, the emptiness. Then HUM is the unification of dependent arising and emptiness. > > > -Lama Zopa Rinpoche In this month’s podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the meaning of the mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM, and then offers an oral transmission of the Long Chenrezig Mantra [https://shop.fpmt.org/assets/images/eproducts/chenrezig_longest_mantra_a5.pdf]. These teachings were given in Singapore, in January 1993. You can read along with the transcript on our website [https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/benefits-om-mani-padme-hum-cont-meaning-mantra#podcast]. [https://lamayeshewisdomarchive.blubrry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Rinpoche-Taos-1024x473.jpg]

> From our side, from us sentient beings, from our side, if we practice correctly, definitely, without doubt, definitely we’ll achieve the ultimate peace.  > > -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to practice in order to achieve the ultimate peace for ourselves and all sentient beings. These teachings were given by Rinpoche in Singapore in January, 1993. You can read along with the transcript on our website [https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chenrezig-mantra-audio-and-unedited-transcripts]. [https://lamayeshewisdomarchive.blubrry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Rinpoche-Taos-1024x473.jpg]

> Once your inner enemy of delusion is destroyed, it is the same as if all outside enemies have been destroyed in one instant. > > > -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to protect ourselves from anger and expands upon the mind of loving kindness. These teachings were given by Rinpoche at the Thirty-third Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2000. You can follow along with the transcript on our website [https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/day-7-repaying-kindness-generating-loving-kindness#podcast]. [https://lamayeshewisdomarchive.blubrry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Rinpoche-Taos-1024x473.jpg]

> The way the ‘I’ and phenomena appear to us, to our hallucinated mind, is they are not merely labeled by mind. As long as these things appear to you that way – not merely labeled by mind – they don’t exist. They’re totally empty there. > > > -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how things appear to exist from their own side. These teachings were given at the Thirty-third Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2000. You can listen also along to the transcript on our website [https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/day-6-how-things-appear-exist-their-own-side]. [https://lamayeshewisdomarchive.blubrry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Rinpoche-Taos-1024x473.jpg]