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Kadampa Teachings (PDF) Kadampa Teachings previously published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Becoming Your Own Therapist, by Lama Yeshe Advice for Monks and Nuns, by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Virtue and Reality, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Make Your Mind an Ocean, by Lama Yeshe Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism, by Lama Yeshe Daily Purifi cation: A Short Vajrasattva Practice, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Making Life Meaningful, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teachings from the Mani Retreat, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Direct and Unmistaken Method, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Yoga of Offering Food, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind, by Lama Yeshe Teachings from Tibet, by various great lamas The Joy of Compassion, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Kindness of Others, by Geshe Jampa Tegchok Ego, Attachment and Liberation, by Lama Yeshe How Things Exist, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Universal Love, by Lama Yeshe The Heart of the Path, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Freedom Through Understanding, by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche For initiates only: A Chat about Heruka, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche A Chat about Yamantaka, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche In association with TDL Publications, Los Angeles: Mirror of Wisdom, by Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Lama Yeshe DVDs The Three Principal Aspects of the Path • Introduction to Tantra Offering Tsok to Heruka Vajrasattva • Anxiety in the Nuclear Age Bringing Dharma to the West • Lama Yeshe at Disneyland May whoever sees, touches, reads, remembers, or talks or thinks about these books never be reborn in unfortunate circumstances, receive only rebirths in situations conducive to the perfect practice of Dharma, meet only perfectly qualified spiritual guides, quickly develop bodhicitta and immediately attain enlightenment for.... the sake of all sentient beings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche Kadampa Teachings Edited by Ailsa Cameron Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive • Boston www.LamaYeshe.com A non-profit charitable organization for the benefit of all sentient beings and an affiliate of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition www.fpmt.org First published 2010 15,000 copies for free distribution Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive PO Box 356 Weston MA 02493, USA © Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche 2010 Please do not reproduce any part of this book by any means whatsoever without our permission Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thubten Zopa, Rinpoche, 1945- Kadampa teachings / Thubten Zopa, Rinpoche ; edited by Ailsa Cameron. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Summary: “The Kadampa geshes were exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet, renowned for their extreme asceticism and uncompromising prac- tice of thought transformation in order to develop bodhicitta. In this book Lama Zopa Rinpoche, himself an exemplar of these practices, explains the Kadampa geshe approach, basing his teachings on ‘The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland,’ Lama Atisha’s wonderful text on developing bodhicitta” —Provided by publisher. isbn 978-1-891868-24-5 1. Bka’-gdams-pa (Sect)—Doctrines. 2. Atisa, 982-1054. Bodhisattvamanyavali. I. Cameron, Ailsa. II. Title. bq7670.4.t48 2010 294.3'420423--dc22 2009048745 isbn 978-1-891868-24-5 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover photographer unknown Cover line art by Robert Beer Designed by Gopa& Ted2 Inc. Printed in the USA with environmental mindfulness on 30% PCW recycled paper. The following resources have been saved: 55 trees, 1,542 lbs. of solid waste, 25,403 gallons of water, 5,275 lbs. of greenhouse gases and 18 million BTUs of energy. Please contact the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for more copies of this and our other free books ...Contents... Editor’s Preface 13 Kadampa Teachings 1 January 2003 January 24 19 January 27 23 Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment 23 Thought Transformation Eliminating Obstacles 25 The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation 27 Kadampa Teachings 2 December 2003–January 2004 December 27 31 Lama Atisha’s life story 32 December 28 43 The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland 45 Practicing mindfulness 48 Mindfulness of impermanence 49 Mindfulness of emptiness 49 December 30 56 Nothing is defi nite 57 The shortcomings of following desire 60 The heart practice 66 Abandoning doubts 68 How to be happy to practice Dharma 69 Abandoning attachment 78 December 31 85 How to be happy to practice Dharma 86 6 ... kadampa teachings ... Abandoning laziness 96 Abandoning attachment 97 January 1 112 Protecting yourself 112 Nothing to trust in appearances 115 Controlling delusions 123 Remembering the deity 123 Remembering that the buddhas are always watching 124 Remembering the negative imprints 126 Kadampa Teachings 3 December 2006 December 30 135 Abandoning doubt 136 Abandoning sleep, drowsiness and laziness 137 Having perseverance 139 Having remembrance, awareness and conscientiousness 141 Protecting your mind 143 December 31 143 The shortcomings of samsara 145 Controlling delusions 156 Remembering impermanence and death 166 The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland 172 Kadampa Teachings 4 December 2007 December 27 189 How the Kopan courses started 191 The heart advice of the Kadam teachings 211 Dedications 212 December 29 221 Guru devotion 222 Examples of dependent arising 226 How time exists 228 ... contents ... 7 Appendixes 1. Mind Training Removing Obstacles 237 2. The Jewel Rosary of the Practice of Bodhicitta 239 3. The Real Meaning of Guru 247 4. T he Essential Advice of the Kadam Scriptures: A Fine Vase of Nectar 253 Glossary 261 Bibliography 277 Suggested Further Reading 279 ...Benefactor’s Dedication ... In loving memory of our precious mother, Chin-Yu Wang Lai, who dedicated her life to supporting our father and nurturing six daughters with love and a natural ease. She possessed a spirit of generosity, strength in perseverance and a lighthearted sense of fun. She lived a full life that was fi lled with kindness and concern for others. Although she was unpretentious and modest about her accomplishments, Mom was a talented artist, an instinctive healer, a great cook and an adroit household manager. Last but not least, she was an entertaining storyteller. Her practical wisdom, warmth and humor touched lives that spanned across cultures and generations. We are blessed to have had her as our mother in this life. May all kind mother sentient beings always be fi lled with joy and quickly actualize the path to ultimate happiness. May His Holi- ness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and all glorious gurus have a long and stable life, and may all their holy wishes succeed immediately. — Lai Family ...Publisher’s Acknowledgments ... e are extremely grateful to our friends and supporters W Lama Yeshe Wisdom who have made it possible for the Archive to both exist and function: to Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, whose kindness is impossible to repay; to Peter and Nicole Kedge and Venerable Ailsa Cameron for their initial work on the Archive; to Venerable Roger Kunsang, Lama Zopa’s tire- less assistant, for his kindness and consideration; and to our sus- taining supporters: Barry and Connie Hershey, Joan Halsall, Tony Steel, Vajrayana Institute, Claire Atkins, Thubten Yeshe, Roger and Claire Ash-Wheeler, Richard Gere, Doren and Mary Harper, Tom and Suzanne Castles, Lily Chang Wu and Hawk Furman. Once again, we thank Ven. Ailsa Cameron for her expert and ded- icated editing of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s most precious teachings. We are also deeply grateful to all those who have become mem- bers of the Archive over the past few years. Details of our member- ship program may be found at the back of this book, and if you are not a member, please do consider joining up. Due to the kindness of those who have, we now have several editors working on our vast collection of teachings for the benefi t of all. We have posted our list of individual and corporate members on our website, www. LamaYeshe.com. ... publisher’s acknowledgments ... 11 In particular, we thank the Lai family for so kindly sponsoring the production of this book in memory of their late mother, Chin- Yu Wang Lai, for her sake and for that of all sentient beings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said that sponsoring the publication of Dharma teachings in memory of deceased relatives and friends was very common in Tibet and is of great benefi t. Therefore we encourage others who might like to make Dharma books available for free dis- tribution in this way to contact us for more information. Thank you so much. We also thank all the other kind people who contributed funds so that we could print extra copies of this book. Furthermore, we would like to express our appreciation for the kindness and compassion of all those other generous benefactors who have contributed funds to our work since we began publish- ing free books. Thankfully, you are too numerous to mention indi- vidually in this book, but we value highly each and every donation made to spreading the Dharma for the sake of the kind mother sen- tient beings and now pay tribute to you all on our website. Thank you so much. Finally, I would like to thank the many other kind people who have asked that their donations be kept anonymous; my wife, Wendy Cook, for her constant help and support; our dedicated offi ce staff, Jennifer Barlow and Ven. Ani Tenzin Desal; Ven. Ailsa Cameron for her decades of meticulous editing; Ven. Connie Miller, Gordon McDougall, Michelle Bernard and our other editors; Ven. Kunsang for his tireless work recording Lama Zopa Rinpoche; Ven. Thubten Labdron, Ven. Thubten Munsel and Dr. Su Hung for their 12 ... kadampa teachings ... help with transcribing; Sandy Smith, Kim Li and our team of vol- unteer web editors; Ven.
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