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experiences but we still haven t learned that much. Many people think that they re learning from their
experiences, but they re not. There are infinite past experiences in their unconscious but they still
know nothing about their own true nature.
Q. Why do we have the opportunity to be attached?
Lama. Because we re hallucinating; we re not seeing the reality of either the subject or the object.
When you understand the nature of an object of attachment, the subjective mind of attachment
automatically disappears. It s the foggy mind, the mind that s attracted to an object and paints a
distorted projection onto it, that makes you suffer. That s all. It s really quite simple.
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Q. I ve seen Tibetan images of wrathful deities, but although they were fierce looking, they didn t look
evil. That made me wonder whether or not Buddhism emphasizes evil and bad things.
Lama. Buddhism never emphasizes the existence of external evil. Evil is a projection of your mind. If
evil exists, it s within you. There s no outside evil to fear. Wrathful deities are emanations of
enlightened wisdom and serve to help people who have a lot of uncontrolled anger. In meditation, the
angry person transforms his anger into wisdom, which is then visualized as a wrathful deity; thus the
energy of his anger is digested by wisdom. Briefly, that s how the method works.
Q. What do you feel about a person killing another person in self defense? Do you think people have the
right to protect themselves, even at the expense of the aggressor s life?
Lama. In most cases of killing in self defense, it s still done out of uncontrolled anger. You should
protect yourself as best you can without killing the other. For example, if you attack me, I m
responsible to protect myself, but without killing you.
Q. If killing me was the only way you could stop me, would you do it?
Lama. Then it would be better that you kill me.
Well, if there are no further questions, I won t keep you any longer. Thank you very much
for everything.
Christchurch, New Zealand, 14 June 1975
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Biographies
Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered the great Sera Monastic
University, Lhasa, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced him into
exile in India. Lama Yeshe continued to study and meditate in India until 1967, when, with his chief
disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he went to Nepal. Two years later he established Kopan
Monastery, near Kathmandu, in order to teach Buddhism to Westerners. In 1974, the Lamas began
making annual teaching tours to the West, and as a result of these travels a worldwide network of
Buddhist teaching and meditation centers the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana
Tradition began to develop. In 1984, after an intense decade of imparting a wide variety of
incredible teachings and establishing one FPMT activity after another, at the age of forty nine, Lama
Yeshe passed away. He was reborn as Osel Hita Torres in Spain in 1985, recognized as the incarnation
of Lama Yeshe by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1986, and, as the monk Lama Tenzin Osel
Rinpoche, is studying for his geshe degree at the reconstituted Sera Monastery in South India. He is
thirteen years old. Lama s remarkable story is told in Vicki Mackenzie s book, Reincarnation: The Boy
Lama (Wisdom Publications, 1996).
Some of Lama Yeshe s teachings have also been published by Wisdom. Books include Wisdom
Energy; Introduction to Tantra; The Tantric Path of Purification; and (summer, 1998) The Bliss of Inner
Fire. Transcripts in print are Light of Dharma; Life, Death and After Death; and Transference of
Consciousness at the Time of Death. Available through FPMT centers or at www.wisdompubs.org.
Lama Yeshe on videotape: Introduction to Tantra, The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, and
Offering Tsok to Heruka Vajrasattva. Available from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
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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 activities at Kopan in 1973, and with Lama Yeshe
founded Wisdom Publications in 1975. Between 1981 and 1996 he served 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.
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Publisher s Acknowledgements
he booklet Becoming Your Own Therapist (from which these pages derived) is the Lama
Yeshe Wisdom Archive s first publication and, in addition to those people thanked
Tpreviously, there are many others to thank for its appearance as well.
Without the kindness and compassion of our benefactors, the Archive itself would not exist and the
booklet in particular would not have seen the light of day. Merely mentioning your names here is a
grossly inadequate way of thanking you for your generosity, but may you be rewarded by a ceaseless
flow of Archive teachings that will lighten the hearts and minds of all who see them, bringing peace
and joy into their lives. Thank you all so much for your donations of funds, time and energy
an endless inspiration in our work for the benefit of all sentient beings. Your patience, too, is worthy
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