Teachings

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy

In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Need for Power Comes from Attachment

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Rinpoche explains how Dharma practice protects us in this teaching excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Dissatisfaction is the Result of Desire

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal

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

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, Australia, 2000

How to make eating the cause of enlightenment for oneself and all other sentient beings. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.

Chapters:
The Yoga of Offering Food •
Read The Yoga of Offering Food •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore

We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.

Chapters:
We Will Keep Meeting Again and Again Until We Are Free From Samsara •
Subduing the Mind •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal

Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed

Topics: Holy Objects
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1977

Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1975

Anger, attachment and ignorance are the cause of all our suffering

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Guadalajara, Mexico 2008

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Attachment and Past Lives

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice. 

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Rinpoche discusses in depth the process one should take when making preparations for death and giving the gift of life through organ donation

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Boulder Creek, California, 1997

In this excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that a happy life is due to good motivation and actions which bring good results.

Topics: Introductory