Teachings
Read our April 2021 enews, and enjoy this month 's teaching, an excerpt from our forthcoming book, The Nectar of Bodhicitta.
Rinpoche gave this advice about resolving complaints and dealing with interpersonal conflict at the Dharma center. Rinpoche said the real enemy and the cause of all our problems is the self-cherishing thought.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: What is Bodhicitta?
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: You Are the Most Lucky Person
In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to experience disease and other problems for all sentient beings.
In this teaching, Rinpoche offers advice on the practice of the good heart and the role of parents in guiding their children. Rinpoche also discusses emptiness and gives a commentary on the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation.
This series presents chapters from the LYWA book Freedom Through Understanding in a format that includes written teachings enhanced by audio, video and images.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Each Second of Our Everyday Life
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at a refuge ceremony at Kopan.
This multimedia collection presents chapters from Bodhisattva Attitude, a book that highlights the importance of motivation in our daily lives and activities.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Not One Single Difficulty to Work for Other Sentient Beings
Advice on how to bring up children and make their lives meaningful.
After a short discourse on emptiness, Rinpoche teaches tonglen, or taking and giving—the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness
A short teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Lama Chöpa (Guru Puja), an essential guru yoga practice.
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.