TEACHINGS FOR THE  GREAT SCOPE PRACTITIONER (ONE WISHING TO ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL SENTIENT BEINGS)    "The supreme practice of the Dharma is the practice of the Great Vehicle. Fundamental to the Great Vehicle is the development of the awakening mind, which has a greater concern for others than for oneself." Quotation from page 145 of Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Down Load Real Player *  For technical help, see notes at the bottom of this page. Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism and the Altruistic Intention TEACHING Part a (20 minutes) mahayana1_a.ram mahayana1_a.rm Part b (20 minutes) mahayana1_b.ram mahayana1_b.rm Meditation (4.5 minutes) mahayana1_med.ram mahayana1_med.rm Post Meditation Discussion (26 minutes) mahayana1post_med.ram mahayana1post_med.rm

Transforming Problems and Difficulties Into the Path

TEACHING
Lesson 1, Part a (30 minutes)	transforming1_a.ram	transforming1_a.rm
Lesson 1, Part b (29 minutes)	transforming1_b.ram	transforming1_b.rm
Lesson 2, Part a (36 minutes)	transforming2_a.ram	transforming2_a.rm
Lesson 2, Part b (31 minutes)	transforming2_b.ram	transforming2_b.rm
Lesson 3, Part a (27 minutes)	transforming3_a.ram	transforming3_a.rm
Lesson 3, Part b (27 minutes)	transforming3_b.ram	transforming3_b.rm
Lesson 4, Part a (38 minutes)	transforming4_a.ram	transforming4_a.rm
Lesson 4, Part b (39 minutes)	transforming4_b.ram	transforming4_b.rm

Seven Point Cause and Effect Training

TEACHING
Lesson 1, Part a (26 minutes)	7pt1_a.ram	7pt1_a.rm
Lesson 1, Part b (28 minutes)	7pt1_b.ram	7pt1_b.rm
Lesson 2, Part a (24 minutes)	7pt2_a.ram	7pt2_a.rm
Lesson 2, Part b (25 minutes)	7pt2_b.ram	7pt2_b.rm
Lesson 2, Meditation (10.5 minutes)	7pt2_med.ram	7pt2_med.rm
Lesson 3 (20 minutes)	7pt3.ram	7pt3.rm
Lesson 3, Meditation (9 minutes)	7pt3_med.ram	7pt3_med.rm
Lesson 3, Discussion (33 minutes)	7pt3_post_med.ram	7pt3_post_med.rm
Lesson 4, Part a (26 minutes)	7pt4_a.ram	7pt4_a.rm
Lesson 4, Part b (28.5 minutes)	7pt4_b.ram	7pt4_b.rm
Lesson 4, Meditation (15.5 minutes)	7pt4_med.ram	7pt4_med.rm
Lesson 4, Discussion (16 minutes)	7pt4_post_med.ram	7pt4_post_med.rm
Lesson 5 (27 minutes)	7pt5.ram	7pt5.rm
Lesson 5, Meditation (12.5 minutes)	7pt5_med.ram	7pt5_med.rm
Lesson 5, Discussion (13.5 minutes	7pt5_post_med.ram	7pt5_post_med.rm
Lesson 6-partial session (13.5 minutes)	7pt6.ram	7pt6.rm
Lesson 7, Part a (29.5 minutes)	7pt7_a.ram	7pt7_a.rm
Lesson 7, Part b (30 minutes)	7pt7_b.ram	7pt7_b.rm
Lesson 7, Meditation (6 minutes)	7pt7_med.ram	7pt7_med.rm

Teachings on the Six Far Reaching Attitudes

TEACHING
Generosity, Part a  (24.5 minutes)	6att_1a.ram	6att_1a.rm
Generosity, Part b  (22.5 minutes)	6att_1b.ram	6att_1b.rm
Morality, Part a  (27.5 minutes)	6att_2a.ram	6att_2a.rm
Morality, Part 1b  (27 minutes)	6att_2b.ram	6att_2b.rm
Patience, Part 1a  (19.5 minutes)	6att_3a.ram	6att_3a.rm
Patience, Part 1b  (22.5 minutes)	6att_3b.ram	6att_3b.rm
Patience, Part 2a  (26 minutes)	6att_4a.ram	6att_4a.rm
Patience, Part 2b  (28 minutes)	6att_4b.ram	6att_4b.rm
Prayers and Meditation        on Patience  (16 minutes)	6att_4_prayers.ram	6att_4_prayers.rm
Patience, Part 3a  (23.5 minutes)	6att_5a.ram	6att_5a.rm
Patience, Part 3b  (23 minutes)	6att_5b.ram	6att_5b.rm
Patience, Part 3c  (13 minutes)	6att_5c.ram	6att_5c.rm
Enthusiastic Endeavor, Part a  (24.5 minutes)      (Sorry, a previous class was not recorded.)	6att_6a.ram	6att_6a.rm
Enthusiastic Endeavor, Part b  (22 minutes)	6att_6b.ram	6att_6b.rm
Enthusiastic Endeavor, Part c  (24.5 minutes)	6att_6c.ram	6att_6c.rm
Concentration, Part 1a  (21.5 minutes)	6att_7a.ram	6att_7a.rm
Concentration, Part 1b  (23.5 minutes)	6att_7b.ram	6att_7b.rm
Concentration, Part 1c  (21 minutes)	6att_7c.ram	6att_7c.rm
Concentration, Part 2a  (18.5 minutes)	6att_8a.ram	6att_8a.rm
Concentration, Part 2b  (16 minutes)	6att_8b.ram	6att_8b.rm
Concentration, Part 2c  (15.5 minutes)	6att_8c.ram	6att_8c.rm
Concentration, Part 2d  (18 minutes)	6att_8d.ram	6att_8d.rm
Concentration, Part 3a  (26 minutes)	6att_9a.ram	6att_9a.rm
Concentration, Part 3b  (21.5 minutes)	6att_9b.ram	6att_9b.rm
Concentration, Part 3c  (22.5 minutes)	6att_9c.ram	6att_9c.rm
Wisdom, Part 1a  (  minutes)	wisdom1a.ram	wisdom1a.rm
Wisdom, Part 1b  (  minutes)	wisdom1b.ram	wisdom1b.rm
Wisdom, Part 1c  (  minutes)	wisdom1c.ram	wisdom1c.rm
Wisdom, Part 2a  (  minutes)	wisdom2a.ram	wisdom2a.rm
Wisdom, Part 2b  (  minutes)	wisdom2b.ram	wisdom2b.rm
Wisdom, Part 2c  (  minutes)	wisdom2c.ram	wisdom2c.rm
Wisdom, Part 3a  (  minutes)	wisdom3a.ram	wisdom3a.rm
Wisdom, Part 3b  (  minutes)	wisdom3b.ram	wisdom3b.rm
Wisdom, Part 3c  (  minutes)	wisdom3c.ram	wisdom3c.rm
Wisdom, Part 4a  (  minutes)	wisdom4a.ram	wisdom4a.rm
Wisdom, Part 4b  (  minutes)	wisdom4b.ram	wisdom4b.rm
Wisdom, Part 4c  (  minutes)	wisdom4c.ram	wisdom4c.rm
Wisdom, Part 4d  (  minutes)	wisdom4d.ram	wisdom4d.rm

BODHISATTVA VOWS

*  See the Eighteen Root Infractions and Forty-Six Secondary Infractions of the Bodhisattva Vows

MEDITATIONS

Instruction on
TONGLEN MEDITATION
THE PRACTICE OF GIVING AND RECEIVING

    "We should not think of the awakening mind merely as an object of admiration, something to pay respect to. It is something we should generate within ourselves. We have the ability and option to do so. You may have been a horribly selfish person in the earlier part of your life, but with determination you can transform your mind. You may become like the person described in a prayer, who 'never expects to work for her own purpose, but always works for the benefit of others.'
    As human beings we have  intelligence and courage. Provided we use them, we will be able to achieve what we set out to do. I personally have no experience of the awakening mind, but when I was in my thirties I used to reflect on the Four Noble Truths and compare the possibility of attaining liberation and developing the awakening mind. I used to think that attaining liberation for myself possible. But when I thought about the awakening mind, it seemed quite far off. I used to think that even though it was a marvelous quality, it would be really difficult to achieve.
    Time has passed and I have entered my forties and then my fifties, and even though I still have not developed the awakening mind I feel quite close to it. Now I think that if I work hard enough I may be able to develop it. Hearing and thinking about the awakening mind makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. Like everyone else, I too experience negative emotions like anger, jealousy, and competitiveness, but due to repeated familiarity I also feel that I am getting closer to the awakening mind. It is a unique quality of the mind that once you get familiar with a particular object, your mind gains stability in relation to it. Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly. The mind is like a fire, which, if you continually feed it, will become hotter. There is nothing that does not get easier with familiarity."

Quotation from page 104 of Awakening the Mind, Enlightening the Heart by
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

    "Prayers and practices are done repeatedly in order to gain familiarity and experience with them. We 'practice Dharma' precisely because we are not yet able to do it perfectly. By repeatedly training in the pratices included in this book under the guidance of a qualified teacher, we gradually learn to do the practices well, thereby transforming our mind and improving the quality of our daily life."

Quotation from the back cover of Pearl of Wisdom, Book II  
by Ven. Thubten Chodron.

    Tonglen is one of two principal means described in lam rim teachings for developing the awakened and compassionate mind.

MEDITATION SESSIONS
SESSION 1, PART a (33 minutes)	tonglen1_a.ram	tonglen1_a.rm
SESSION 1, PART b (25 minutes)	tonglen1_b.ram	tonglen1_b.rm
SESSION 2, PART a (36 minutes)	tonglen2_a.ram	tonglen2_a.rm
SESSION 2, PART b (49 minutes)	tonglen2_b.ram	tonglen2_b.rm
SESSION 3 (40  minutes)	tonglen3.ram	tonglen3.rm
SESSION 4, PART a (33  minutes)	tonglen4_a.ram	tonglen4_a.rm
SESSION 4, PART b (20.5 minutes)	tonglen4_b.ram	tonglen4_b.rm
SESSION 5, PART a (32 minutes)	tonglen5_a.ram	tonglen5_a.rm
SESSION 5, PART b (29 minutes)	tonglen5_b.ram	tonglen5_b.rm

Praises and Requests to the Twenty-One Taras
Introduction to the Meditation Practice

1999 TOUR OF THE
NUNS OF 
KHACHOE GHAKYIL (KOPAN) NUNNERY

    Ten nuns from the Kopan Nunnery in Kathmandu presented sacred music, chant, dance and art in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition during an appearance in Colorado Springs, at Shove Chapel  on May 4, 1999.     The nuns come from a nunnery of almost two hundred nuns. For them the tour is a way of fundraising for additional housing, so that more nuns may be accepted into the nunnery, to provide medical care and for the creation of a food fund for future needs. The tour is dedicated to cultivating an awareness of the unique civilization of the Tibetan people, its cultural heritage, its Buddhist religion and its political tradition.

The following recorded chants and prayers are not from the nuns regular program, but were recorded during their visit with our members at a meditation session in Shove Chapel.

SELECTION
TAKING REFUGE	nuns1.ram	nuns1.rm
THE FOUR IMMEASURABLES	nuns2.ram	nuns2.rm
SEVEN LIMB PRAYER	nuns3.ram	nuns3.rm
PRAISE TO THE 21 TARAS	nuns4.ram	nuns4.rm
VISUALIZATION AND  TARA MANTRA	nuns5.ram	nuns5.rm
REQUESTING PRAYER	nuns6.ram	nuns6.rm
DEDICATION IN ENGLISH	nuns7.ram	nuns7.rm
DEDICATION	nuns8.ram	nuns8.rm
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS	nuns9.ram	nuns9.rm

     During 1999 the Nuns of  Khachoe Ghakil (Kopan) Nunnery visited more than a hundred cities offering their Buddhist cultural performance, undertaking speaking engagements and presenting the sacred art of making sand mandalas. Their theme for the tour was "Women’s Freedom and Spiritual Liberation."

THE ONE-THOUSAND ARMED CHENRESIG MEDITATION

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