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SUN OF DEVOTION, STREAM OF BLESSINGS Lama Zopa Rinpoche Edited by Gordon McDougall May whoever sees, touches, reads, remembers, or talks or thinks about this book 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 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 Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive PO Box 636, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA
Please do not reproduce any part of this book by any means whatsoever without our permission. Copyright Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, 2016 Ebook ISBN 978-1-891868-68-9 LCCN 2016025638 SODSOB-2016-v2 Cover photograph by Thubten Kunsang (Henri Lopez) Cover designed by Gopa&Ted2 Inc. 2
Page 4 and 5: The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Bring
Page 6 and 7: 6. The Guru Is the Most Powerful Ob
Page 8 and 9: Editor’s Preface This book is the
Page 10 and 11: Chapter 1. Taking Care of the Mind
Page 12 and 13: We still have to experience death b
Page 14 and 15: In a well-cultivated field, whateve
Page 16 and 17: What a pleasant life we human being
Page 18 and 19: enefit the teachings of the Buddha
Page 20 and 21: Among those fifty-one secondary min
Page 22 and 23: means the cessation of all the gros
Page 24 and 25: Padmasambhava’s ways of diagnosin
Page 26 and 27: Practicing Dharma is subduing our m
Page 28 and 29: from life to life, we will be able
Page 30 and 31: In A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s W
Page 32 and 33: said, that allows them to develop i
Page 34 and 35: contained in the Tengyur, a collect
Page 36 and 37: Thus the misconceptions about Buddh
Page 38 and 39: Not understanding this specific emp
Page 40 and 41: Cutter Sutra eventually does. Then
Page 42 and 43: There are sentient beings who are a
Page 44 and 45: vase, the neck is not the vase, the
Page 46 and 47: 4. The freedom of not being born as
Page 48 and 49: sentient beings, not only to the ti
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All of us, believers or nonbeliever
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The need for refuge in our life Per
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▶abstaining from telling lies ▶
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Otherwise they come into the kitche
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Our life is so important, so precio
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Even though our mind, or the other
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We will realize this as we are abou
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The emptiness of the Z I want to en
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the greatest problem that affluent
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Without a guru, we cannot be free f
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This is mentioned in Pabongka Deche
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particles of dust of the earth. Eve
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human mother. If we were to sacrifi
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Buddhism came from the Buddha, from
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obscurations but also the obscurati
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Chapter 7. A Talk about Dolgyal Rec
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seemed to like us and we were able
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very crowded. That’s how we lived
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him about the bum-pa, the vase. Thi
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A key element of guru devotion prac
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who helped with his education, his
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In short, practicing Dolgyal is har
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Khadro-la and earthquakes Although
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esult of negative karma is rebirth
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Publicly she is like an ordinary pe
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There are other quotations but that
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Once in Nepal I dreamed of a small
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is the kind root guru. Then it star
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It is as the quote says, Before the
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The importance of guru devotion Pad
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So now, this is a real story. At Bu
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them perfectly—and even if he has
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Practicing Dharma is more important
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memorize them but then forgot them
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egin by achieving a long life, wher
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Chapter 10. Seeing the Guru as a Bu
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The monks did that, but of course,
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uddhas. That is also mentioned in t
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person without head. I don’t know
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Those meditators who have achieved
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When I was in Tibet I visited Tsurp
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Why should they be called kon-chog
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that it is his mistake. It is like
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Chapter 11. More Precious than a Wi
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patience, perseverance, meditation
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dust of this earth can be counted,
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we were once crossing a short bridg
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There are so many animals. There ar
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Whether or not we eat animals is in
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Having been born at a time when the
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We must prepare for the next life T
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There is no sentient being we have
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Probably many people think that ren
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Chapter 12. Cutting the Root of Sam
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Because things appear to us not as
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161
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This is all karma. What the Buddha
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numberless suffering sentient being
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By seeing that person as a wish-gra
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light more and some illusory body.
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to achieve enlightenment. The other
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together is the transcendental wisd
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Then you make a promise to generate
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eings who also need the Medicine Bu
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Focus on the deity’s holy body th
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End Notes 1. Or his. Rather than us
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30. Khedrub Sang ye Yeshe (1525-91)
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64. In other teachings Rinpoche has
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97. These are the three ways to und
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Where and when these teachings were
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Gyatso, Tenzin, the Fourteenth Dala
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———. How to Practice Dharma:
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If you, dear reader, would like to
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Other available teachings by Lama Y
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Our further development similarly d
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The Foundation for the Preservation
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Dedication Through the merit create
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About Gordon McDougall Gordon McDou
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