Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.

In this excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that happiness and suffering arise from the mind, just as a shadow follows the body.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how freedom from the eight worldly concerns creates real peace, in this teaching excerpt from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course.

Two discourses on topics including emptiness of the I, impermanence and death, and transforming problems

A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma

To eliminate suffering and obtain happiness, the most important thing is to have a good heart

The karmic results of nonvirtuous actions are experienced in this life or in future lives, unless we purify the negative karma.