Nun of Your Business

To get the screen notes that were typed at the Mexico retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, go to this folder: LZR Mexico 2015 The notes from all sessions, all teachers, have been combined, totalling 157 pages. You can save either the PDF or the Word DOCX file. Other resources, such as the Bodhicitta Mindfulness list will be there, too. Update: I added a file with the notes typed into the Daily Meditation , including Blessing the Speech, from when Rinpoche gave the lung  (oral transmission). Click on the same link above and you'll see all the files. Caution: The screen notes are not a transcript. Sometimes things were missed because of not understanding, Rinpoche speaking very quickly, other things interrupting the typing, or the typist's fatigue. Also, we were just typing notes for the audience; we weren't trying to get every word. In addition to Lama Zopa Rinpoche's talks, there were also sessions by Venerable Steve Carlier (the retreat leader), and Venerable...

I have uploaded onto Archive.org a recording of some of the mantras that Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche has advised us to do in the morning. These are traditional practices in our lineage, that is, the tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa, Mahayana Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism. These mantras can be found in the beginning of the FPMT prayer book, Essential Buddhist Prayers, Volume 1 . I asked a well-educated Indian friend to pronounce these mantras for me, since mantras are preserved in the classical language of India, Sanskrit. She in turn asked her mother to record them, saying that her mother has better pronunciation. The speaker in these recordings is a woman from South India, who grew up in the State of Kerala but whose family ancestry comes from Goa. She has a Masters Degree, speaks five languages, and currently lives in the United States. She is not Buddhist, so these wouldn't be mantras that she does as part of her personal practice. She was reading from a print-out of the man...