Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In Lama Yeshes and Lama Zopa Rinpoches first trip to
Europe they offered a weekend seminar based on their famous month-long
Kopan meditation courses. Preceded by Lama Yeshes lecture on meditation
at Kensington Town Hall, these teachings at Royal Holloway College,
Surrey, encompass the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment.
"Buddhism
isn't some fanatical religious trip. It's a philosophical way of living
life. And also, to study Buddhism you don't need to believe in
something extreme. It's a matter of investigating, examining and
experimenting on yourself. It's not just belief. Without understanding,
belief can be very dangerous. So what Lord Buddha emphasized was that
understanding is the path to liberation, knowledge is the path to
liberation." (Lama Thubten Yeshe)
"The practice of religion,
spirituality or Dharma has to be a method that completely destroys all
suffering, a method that brings about the complete cessation of
suffering, and not just temporarily. That depends upon completely
eradicating the root of all the billions of sufferings that
existignorance and all the other delusions that spring from the root of
ignorance. True peace is received whenever we completely eradicate this
root of suffering. In other words, cessation of ignorance, attachment
and anger is real freedom, true peacethe peace that never changes; the
peace that once received can never change, is everlasting." (Lama Zopa
Rinpoche)
Note: The footage on these DVDs is
extremely rare. It shows the Lamas as they were when their first students met
them, when they sowed the seeds of what became FPMT. These DVDs contain
archival footage derived from less than optimally made videotapes in the 70s
and early 80s; thus, there are gaps in the footage and other issues.Lama Yeshe
Wisdom Archive director Nick Ribush has kindly supplied us with his own story
of how these precious DVDs were made.
3 disc set, totalling over 10 1/2 hours playing time.