Transforming a Suffering Life

Additional Resources

Related Practice Texts

• Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha -  eBook and PDF - compiled by Lama Zopa Rinpoche specifically for beginner Buddhists to use as a daily practice (contains an extensive meditation on refuge)

Suggested Reading

Bodhisattva Attitude by Lama Zopa Rinpoche: this eBook contains:

• an explanation of the verses from Shantideva's Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds found in The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) (see p. 97 and p. 169)

• the practice Blessing the Speech and some of the daily mantras (see "Morning Mantras," p. 195)

FPMT Online Programs on Related Topics

Living in the Path

These modules contain teachings on other ways of generating a bodhichitta motivation:

• Realizing the Lamrim: Death-Impermanence, "Cutting the Concept of Permanence"

• Realizing the Lamrim: Nature of Samsara, "Abandon Stretching the Legs"

Discovering Buddhism

• Establishing a Daily Practice