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The Buddha gave his disciples countless ways to attain enlightenment quickly. In this module, discover mantras to empower your speech and body so that others can benefit from your presence. Practice bodhichitta mindfulness to imbue every action of daily life with a good heart. Create continual merit through the yoga of eating and making offerings. Take the Eight Mahayana Precepts and experience the power of living in vows. These methods hook blessings, clear obstacles, and transform our actions into what is beneficial. These teachings are extracted from the Light of the Path Retreat, September 2009 in North America taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

"Taking the essence all day and night; that is what we have to do this one time when we have found this good body of freedom. Aaaaall day and night. It is not only when you are happy, when you feel good, when you are in a good mood. You must pick up the all, pay attention to that: To take its essence all day and night." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

When you purchase this course, you will receive an email with a link to download a PDF, which contains the enrollment key required to access this course on the online learning site at http://onlinelearning.fpmt.org

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

Session One: Mantras for the Morning

• Recall the motivation: “Give up entering samsara”
• The increasing effect mantra
• The mala blessing mantra
• Mantra for blessing the feet
• Mantra for reciting texts
• Blessing the Speech with ALI, KALI, and the Dependent-Related Heart Mantra
• Stainless Beam mantra
• Mantra taught by Buddha Droden Gyälwa Chhö
  

Session Two: Bodhichitta Mindfulness

• Following delusion brings harm; following bodhichitta brings happiness
• Bodhichitta in daily life activities: Waking, dressing, cleaning, etc.
• Other actions transformed by bodhichitta (doors, sitting, walking, etc.)
• Sleeping yoga
• Collecting merits while bathing
• The yoga of eating for continual merit
  

Session Three: Offerings Cause Enlightenment

• Benefits of Making Offerings
• Benefits of being Buddhist
• The Benefits of the Mantra of Clouds of Offerings
• The Yoga of Offering Food
  

Session Four: The Eight Mahayana Precepts

• The merit of keeping just one vow
• Quote from Sutra of the King of Concentration about keeping vows
• Making life meaningful with vows
• Specific benefits of the individual precepts
• An especially effective motivation for taking the Precepts
• Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

ACCOMPANYING VIDEO EXCERPTS

• “Mantras for the Morning” (11 min)
• “The Importance of Blessing the Feet” (9 min)
• “Benefits of Blessing the Speech” (9 min)
• “Blessing Your Speech” (35 min)
• “Other Powerful Mantras” (28 min)
• “Mindfulness of Bodhichitta” (13 min)
• “Sleeping Yoga” (17 min)
• “Offerings Cause Enlightenment” (20 min)
• “Mantra of Clouds of Offerings” (25 min)
• “The Merit of Keeping Just One Vow” (7 min)
• “Motivation for Precepts” (9 min)
• “Precepts Ceremony” (41 min)

OTHER MATERIAL IN THIS COURSE

• A reading pack in PDF format
• Meditations & Practices
• Mindfulness exercises for daily life
• Service component or karma yoga exercises
• Questions for discussion for student/facilitator review & assessment
• Suggested readings
  
• Helpful resources