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Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings (PDF) The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Bringing you the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these Dharma teachings freely available on our website for instant reading, watching, listening or downloading, as printed, audio and e-books, as multimedia presentations, in our historic image galleries, on our Youtube channel, through our monthly eletter and podcast and with our wonderful social media communities. Please help us increase our efforts to spread the Dharma for the happiness and benefit of everyone everywhere. Come find out more about supporting the Archive and see all we have to offer by exploring our website at www.lamayeshe.com. Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings Previously published by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive By Lama Zopa Rinpoche By Lama Yeshe Virtue and Reality Becoming Your Own Therapist Teachings from the Vajrasattva Make Your Mind an Ocean Retreat The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism Daily Purification: The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind A Short Vajrasattva Practice Ego, Attachment and Liberation Making Life Meaningful Universal Love Teachings from the Mani Retreat Life, Death and After Death The Direct and Unmistaken Method The Yoga of Offering Food By Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Joy of Compassion Advice for Monks and Nuns How Things Exist Freedom Through Understanding The Heart of the Path Teachings from the Medicine Other books Buddha Retreat Teachings from Tibet by various great lamas Kadampa Teachings The Kindness of Others by Geshe Jampa Bodhisattva Attitude Tegchok How to Practice Dharma In association with The Perfect Human Rebirth TDL Publications A Teaching on Heruka Mirror of Wisdom (initiates only) by Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen A Teaching on Yamantaka Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment (initiates only) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 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 Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings Edited by Gordon McDougall 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 2016 Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive PO Box 636 Lincoln MA 01773, USA © Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche 2016 Please do not reproduce any part of this book by any means whatsoever without our permission Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Thubten Zopa, Rinpoche, 1945- author. | McDougall, Gordon, 1948- editor. Title: Sun of devotion, stream of blessings / Lama Zopa Rinpoche ; edited By Gordon McDougall. Description: Boston : Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references. “In 2014 Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings in Leeds and London, England. He covered such essential topics as guru devotion and emptiness, talked about the dakini Khadro-la, told stories from his life and explained the dangers of the spirit Dolgyal. This book is suit- able for both beginners and advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism” —Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2016024514 (print) | LCCN 2016025638 (ebook) | ISBN 9781891868856 | ISBN 9781891868870 () Subjects: LCSH: Buddhism—Tibet Region. Classification: LCC BQ7604 .T493 2016 (print) | LCC BQ7604 (ebook) | DDC 294.3/4—dc23 ISBN 978- 1- 891868- 85- 6 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover photograph by Thubten Kunsang Designed by Gopa&Ted2 Inc. ♻ Printed in the USA with environmental mindfulness on 30% PCW recycled paper. The following resources have been saved: 24 trees, 760 lbs. of solid waste, 11,000 gallons of water, 2,175 lbs. of greenhouse gases and 11 million BTUs of energy. (papercalculator.org) Please contact the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for more copies of this and our other free books. Contents ., Publisher’s Acknowledgments ix Editor’s Preface xi 1. Taking Care of the Mind 1 The method to transform the mind 3 In a well- cultivated field, whatever is planted will grow 6 Happiness is a dependent arising 8 2. Our Happiness Is in Our Hands 13 Transforming suffering into happiness 13 The ultimate mind is sang- gyä 16 Education is more than learning 17 Padmasambhava’s ways of diagnosing illness 19 What is samsara? 20 Practicing Dharma is subduing our mind 21 The inner education of patience and compassion 23 Our family is our mind training 24 There can be no happiness following the self- cherishing thought 26 3. The Hallucination of the Real I 31 Buddhism comes to Tibet 31 The Buddha manifests in an ordinary form to guide us 36 vi sun of devotion Emptiness only, tong- pa- nyi 38 What we do to protect this nonexistent real I 39 How everything appears to us as truly existing 42 The Prasangika view of emptiness 45 4. The Need for Ethics and Refuge 47 We have met these eight freedoms and ten richnesses 47 The perfect human rebirth is so rare and so fragile 51 Believer or nonbeliever, we must still lead an ethical life 55 The need for refuge in our life 58 The importance of the Namgyälma mantra 61 5. The Room Before It Is Named 65 The room before it is named 67 Illusioned by the magician, ignorance 69 Understanding the real I 71 We have met the correct teachings 72 The king of delusions 73 The emptiness of the Z 74 Time to stop the tyranny of the real I 75 6. The Guru Is the Most Powerful Object 79 The sun of devotion, the stream of blessings 79 To disrespect the guru is to disrespect all the buddhas 82 The kindness of the parents 84 Wasting our life, we waste our parents’ lives 88 The guru is the most powerful object 89 Examples of offering service to the guru 92 7. A Talk about Dolgyal 97 My life in Phagri and Buxa Duar 99 Buxa Duar 102 About Dolgyal 103 Having no mistakes but showing mistakes 105 The need to renounce Dolgyal practice 108 His Holiness is the one to reveal the complete teachings 113 Contents vii 8. Khadro- la 115 Khadro- la and earthquakes 115 The power of the bodhisattvas 117 Saving animals and humans 118 Publicly she is like an ordinary person 120 The guru appears in an ordinary form because of our impure mind 123 The absolute and conventional guru 128 9. The Importance of Guru Devotion 133 The importance of guru devotion 134 The real beginning is guru devotion 139 All happiness comes from Dharma 141 The importance of the Dharma and Dharma centers 143 Rinpoche learns English 145 Vajrayana is like the sun and moon 146 How can we be happy while others suffer? 148 10. Seeing the Guru as a Buddha 151 The harm Dolgyal has done 151 We must investigate any guru we want to follow 154 Seeing the guru as a buddha 157 Offering to the pores of His Holiness 160 The guru is more precious than a wish- granting jewel 165 Seeing apparent mistakes in the guru 168 11. More Precious than a Wish- granting Jewel 173 Lama Tsongkhapa and Mönlam 173 The benefits of prostrations 175 Khadro- la’s story 178 Benefiting sentient beings 180 How to help somebody who is dying or dead 181 Having a perfect human rebirth is like a dream 183 We must not waste one moment 185 Whether or not we eat animals is in our hands 186 viii sun of devotion This precious human life is more precious than a wish- granting jewel 187 We must prepare for the next life 191 Which will come first, tomorrow or the next life? 192 Renounce this life 195 12. Cutting the Root of Samsara 199 The decoration that pervades our life 199 Cutting the root of samsara 200 The twelve limbs 202 All our happiness has come from other sentient beings 206 Only by cherishing others will we attain enlightenment 210 13. Practicing Tantra 213 Heruka, Guhyasamaja and Yamantaka 213 Why practicing Heruka is important 215 Taking initiation: the samayas of the five buddha families 217 Using the damaru, vajra and bell 223 The interpretation of dreams 225 Vajrayana and emptiness 226 Vajrayana combines method and wisdom in one mind 227 Tantra is the resultant vehicle 228 Chronology 231 Bibliography 277 Publisher’s Acknowledgments ., e are extremely grateful to our friends and supporters who Whave made it possible for the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive to both exist and function: Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, whose kind- ness is impossible to repay; Peter and Nicole Kedge and Venerable Ailsa Cameron for their initial work on the Archive; Venerable Roger Kunsang, Rinpoche’s tireless assistant, for his kindness and consideration; and our sus- taining supporters—Christine Arlington, Roger and Claire Ash- Wheeler, Tom and Suzanne Castles, Nick and Gisela Dawson, Richard Gere, Goh Pik Pin, Annelies van der Heijden and Annette van Citters, Barry and Connie Hershey, Dr. S.T. Lee, Ho Sau Ling, Therese Miller, Janet Moore, Ven. Gyalten Palmo, Erick Rinner, Tham Poon King, Thubten Yeshe, Yeshe Khorlo Foundation, and several anonymous benefactors. With respect to Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings, in late 2014 I received a call from Ven. Roger that Rinpoche would like his recent teach- ings in England published soon. So Gordon got to work and produced a manuscript not long after, and after Sandy Smith’s final polish, here it is. Thank you Gordon and Sandy for your great work.
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