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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

TOPICS COVERED

• Session One: Mantras for the Morning
• Session Two: Bodhichitta Mindfulness
• Session Three: Offerings Cause Enlightenment
• Session Four: The Eight Mahayana Precepts

READINGS: Living in the Path, Module Two: Taking the Essence reading packet for this course.

ACCOMPANYING VIDEO EXCERPTS

• "Mantras for the Morning" (11 min)
• "The Importance of Blessing the Feet" (9min)
• "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)

MEDITATIONS & PRACTICES

MINDFULNESS EXERCISES FOR DAILY LIFE

SERVICE COMPONENT OR KARMA YOGA

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION FOR STUDENT/FACILITATOR REVIEW & ASSESSMENT

SUGGESTED READING

• Buddhism in a Nutshell, by Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Amy Miller

HELPFUL RESOURCES (can be found at www.fpmt.org, unless otherwise indicated)

• Three Principal Aspects of the Path (DVD), Lama Thubten Yeshe
• Discovering Buddhism, Module 1: Mind and Its Potential
• Discovering Buddhism, Module 3: Presenting the Path
• Discovering Buddhism, Module 5: Death and Rebirth
• Discovering Buddhism, Module 6: All About Karma
• Discovering Buddhism, Module 10: How to Develop Bodhichitta