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Lama. From the time you were born up to the present, two things have always complicated your
mind; there are always two things, never just one. That s what we mean by the dualistic mind.
Whenever you see one thing, your mind automatically, instinctively, compares it to something else:
 What about that? Those two things upset your equilibrium. That s the dualistic mind at work. Now,
your other question. When I say check up, I mean that you should investigate your own mind to see if
it s healthy or not. Every morning, check your mental state to make sure that during the day you don t
freak out. That s all I mean by  check up.
Q. If everything is karmically determined, how do we know if our motivation is correct, or is there the
possibility of unconditioned choice?
Lama. Pure motivation is not determined by karma. Pure motivation comes from understanding 
knowledge-wisdom. If there s no understanding in your mind it s difficult for your motivation to be
pure. For example, if I don t understand my own selfish nature, I can t help others. As long as I don t
recognize my selfish behavior, I always blame others for my problems. When I know my own mind,
my motivation becomes pure and I can sincerely dedicate the actions of my body, speech and mind to
the welfare of others.
Thank you, that was a wonderful question, and I think that pure motivation is a good place to stop.
Thank you so much. If we have pure motivation, we sleep well, dream well and enjoy well, so thank
you very much.
Assembly Hall
Melbourne, Australia 27 March 1975
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About the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
he Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe
and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa
TRinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it
contains. Distribution of free booklets of edited teachings is one of the ways.
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche began teaching at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 1970. Since
then, their teachings have been recorded and transcribed. At present the LYWA contains about 6,000
cassette tapes and approximately 40,000 pages of transcribed teachings on computer disk. Some 4,000
tapes, mostly teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, remain to be transcribed. As Rinpoche continues to
teach, the number of tapes in the Archive increases accordingly. Most of the transcripts have been
neither checked nor edited.
Here at the LYWA we are making every effort to organize the transcription of that which has not
yet been transcribed, to edit that which has not yet been edited, and generally to do the many other
tasks detailed below. In all this, we need your help. Please contact us for more information:
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
PO Box 356
Weston MA 02493 USA
Telephone (781) 899-9587
Email nribush@compuserve.com
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The Archive Trust
The work of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive falls into two categories: archiving and
dissemination.
Archiving requires managing the audiotapes of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
that have already been collected, collecting tapes of teachings given but not yet sent to the Archive,
and collecting tapes of Lama Zopa s on-going teachings, talks, advice and so forth as he travels the
world for the benefit of all. Tapes are then catalogued and stored safely while being kept accessible for
further work.
We organize the transcription of tapes, add the transcripts to the already existent database of
teachings, manage this database, have transcripts checked and make transcripts available to editors or
others doing research on or practicing these teachings.
Other archiving activities include working with videotapes and photographs of the Lamas and
investigating the latest means of preserving Archive materials.
Dissemination involves making the Lamas teachings available directly or indirectly through
various avenues such as booklets for free distribution, regular books for the trade, lightly edited
transcripts, floppy disks, audio- and videotapes, and articles in Mandala and other magazines, and on
the FPMT web site. Irrespective of the method we choose, the teachings require intensive editing to
prepare them for distribution.
This is just a summary of what we do. The Archive was established with virtually no seed funding
and has developed solely through the kindness of many people, some of whom we have mentioned at [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]