How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas

FPMT Lineage Series

by Zopa Rinpoche, Gordon McDougall (Editor), Subhash Mandal (Narrator)

Buddhism is a house full of treasures—practices for gaining the happiness of future lives, the bliss of liberation and the supreme happiness of enlightenment—but knowing the difference between Dharma and non-Dharma is the key that opens the door to all those treasures. No matter how much we know about emptiness, the chakras or controlling our vital energy through kundalini yoga, it’s all pointless without this crucial understanding of how to practice Dharma, how to correct our actions. There are vast numbers of people who delude themselves and waste their entire life studying the most esoteric aspects of Buddhism but never understand the most fundamental point, the distinction between Dharma and non-Dharma. FPMT Lineage is a series of books of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings on the graduated path to enlightenment (lam-rim) drawn from his four decades of discourses on the topic based on his own textbook, The Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun, and several traditional lam-rim texts and in

Genres: Buddhism

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First published July 15, 2012

Reviews

[Hector Hernandez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is very ninja-disciplined master. In the sense of, making you to be NOT confused about what IS and what NOT Dharma and the practice of Dharma.

Fundamentally, this book has intermediate-advance buddism material but comprehensible to everyone. It has a very unique approach of desire, attachment, self-cherishing, being praised and to seek for good reputation.
I was deeply engage with many of the examples and thought meditations, Rinpoche provides.

Ex. Whenever someone gives you a praise like "Your are beautiful" or an offense like "You are dumb", these sounds are merely voices, just like when a person yells at a canyon and the echo suddenly appears. It just a sound, it is your ignorant and uncalm mind that ignites the meaning of the words.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good reminder to focus on the intentions behind the practice.

[Stevie Ada · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy read (listen) about the eight worldly Dharmas. Thubten Zopa is clear and direct. Sometimes his frankness is not the most effective vehicle for telling a story. Found it important to consider the reflections on emptiness and detachment.

[Ana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I find it repetitive, but I like the message.