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alleviating their suffering, and bringing them all happiness, up to and
including enlightenment. Some people might find this practice a bit
unusual, but it is given according to tradition. Thank you very much.
DEDICATION
Through the merit created by preparing, reading, thinking about and
sharing this book with others, may all teachers of the Dharma live
long and healthy lives, may the Dharma spread throughout the infin-
ite reaches of space, and may all sentient beings quickly attain
enlightenment.
In whichever realm, country, area or place this book may be, may
there be no war, drought, famine, disease, injury, disharmony or
unhappiness, may there be only great prosperity, may every thing
needed be easily obtained, and may all be guided by only perfectly
qualified Dharma teachers, enjoy the happiness of Dharma, have only
love and compassion for all beings, and only benefit and never harm
each other.
LAMA THUBTEN ZOPA RINPOCHE
Rinpoche was born in Thami, Nepal, in 1946. At the age of three he
was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama, who had
lived nearby at Lawudo, within sight of Rinpoche s Thami home.
Rinpoche s own description of his early years may be found in his
book, The Door to Satisfaction (Wisdom Publications). At the age of
ten, Rinpoche went to Tibet and studied and meditated at Domo
Geshe Rinpoche s monastery near Pagri, until the Chinese occupation
of Tibet in 1959 forced him to forsake Tibet for the safety of Bhutan.
Rinpoche then went to the Tibetan refugee camp at Buxa Duar, West
Bengal, India, where he met Lama Yeshe, who became his closest
teacher. The Lamas went to Nepal in 1967, and over the next few
years built Kopan and Lawudo Monasteries. In 1971 Lama Zopa
Rinpoche gave the first of his famous annual lam-rim retreat courses,
which continue at Kopan to this day. In 1974, with Lama Yeshe,
Rinpoche began traveling the world to teach and establish centers of
Dharma. When Lama Yeshe passed away in 1984, Rinpoche took over
as spiritual head of the FPMT, which has continued to flourish under
his peerless leadership. More details of Rinpoche s life and work may
be found on the FPMT Web site, www.fpmt.org. Rinpoche s other
published teachings include Wisdom Energy (with Lama Yeshe),
Transforming Problems, and a number of transcripts and practice book-
lets (available from Wisdom Publications at www.wisdompubs.org).
DR . NICHOLAS RIBUSH, MB, BS, is a graduate of Melbourne University
Medical School (1964) who first encountered Buddhism at Kopan
Monastery in 1972. Since then he has been a student of Lamas Yeshe and
Zopa Rinpoche and a full time worker for the FPMT. He was a monk
from 1974 to 1986. He established FPMT archiving and publishing activi-
ties at Kopan in 1973, and with Lama Yeshe founded Wisdom
Publications in 1975. Between 1981 and 1996 he served variously as
Wisdom s director, editorial director and director of development. Over
the years he has edited and published many teachings by Lama Yeshe and
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and established and/or directed several other FPMT
activities, including the International Mahayana Institute, Tushita
Mahayana Meditation Centre, the Enlightened Experience Celebration,
Mahayana Publications, Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies
and now the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. He has been a member of the
FPMT board of directors since its inception in 1983.
Virtue and Reality
 How can we make best use of this perfect human rebirth, the precious
human body that we have received just this once? How can we make it most
beneficial, not only for ourselves but for those other, most precious, extreme-
ly important living beings? Just like us, numberless other living beings, each
of whom is as equally precious as we feel ourselves to be, seek only happiness
and dislike any suffering. How can we make our lives productive for their
sake? This is the main thing we should be asking ourselves.
 Lama Zopa Rinpoche
In Virtue and Reality, Lama Zopa answers this question. He tells us that
the best way to live is  with compassion and wisdom. In great detail, and
with constant emphasis on how to practice compassion and wisdom in daily
life, Rinpoche then goes on to explain how to develop these qualities
in our minds.
This book contains methods for transforming everyday actions into the cause
of enlightenment, anger into patience, and the ordinary view of phenomena
as inherently existent into the wisdom realizing emptiness. It also includes
several meditations led by Rinpoche, although everything in the book is a
topic for meditation. As Rinpoche often recommends, when reading books,
don't rush through as if you're reading a newspaper, but read and think, read
and think. That is the way to get the most out of Dharma books, and there's
certainly plenty to get out of this one.
LAMA THUBTEN ZOPA RINPOCHE was born in Thami, Nepal, in 1946. At the
age of three he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama.
From 1956 to 1959 he studied at Domo Monastery in Tibet. He then fled
Chinese oppression in Tibet and continued his study and practice in Tibetan [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]