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In this course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche makes certain that we understand the most fundamental and profound truth of Buddha?s teachings: how ignorance creates our problems and how wisdom creates our happiness. We are given practical ways to apply impermanence, karma, and emptiness in daily life, and catch the hallucination of true existence in the moment that ignorance projects it. These teachings are extracted from the Light of the Path Retreat, September 2009 in North America taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

"When we say belief it looks like it is something that is not true. Here, we are talking about a belief that accords with reality. When you understand what fundamental Buddhist philosophy, practice, and belief is. Woooow!." - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

TOPICS COVERED

• Session One: Your Mind is the Creator
• Session Two: Appearances Come from Karma
• Session Three: Choosing Happiness over Anger
• Session Four: How the Mind Can Change
• Session Five: Ignorance versus Reality
• Session Six: Basic Buddhist Belief

READINGS: Living in the Path, Module Three: What Buddhists Believe reading packet for this course.

ACCOMPANYING VIDEO EXCERPTS

• "The Various Worlds are Born from Karma" (12 min)
• "Analogy of a Movie" (9 min)
• "Evolution of Appearances" (9 min)
• "Appearances Come from Karma" (10 min)
• "Analogy of the Rope and the Snake" (14 min)
• "Object to be Refuted" (13 min)
• "Ignorance & Wisdom" (10 min)
• "How the Buddha Liberates Beings" (7 min)
• "Freedom from Bondage" (8 min)
• "Losing the I" (26 min)
• "Ignorance has its Own View" (14 min)
• "Like a Magician?s Illusion" (24 min)
• "The View of Your Karma" (21 min)
• "It Came from Your Mind" (14 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
• Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, by Pabongka Rinpoche (pp. 647-706)
• Emptiness Yoga, by Jeffrey Hopkins
• Virtue and Reality, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• How to See Yourself as You Really Are by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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

• Discovering Buddhism at Home, Modules on Karma and Emptiness
• Basic Program Homestudy, courses on Heart Sutra and Tenets
• Emptiness Explained, DVD or MP3 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• How to Meditate on Emptiness, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Emptiness on the Spiritual Path, by Ven. Rene Feusei
• Emptiness: Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Vol. 5, by Geshe Tashi Tsering
• Introduction to Emptiness: Tsongkhapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, by Guy Newland
• Realizing Emptiness, by Gen Lamrimpa

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