Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
- Practicing Patience •
- Generating Bodhicitta •
- You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
- Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
- Motivation is Most Important •
- Live Your Life With Bodhicitta •
- How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even With Your Speech •
- The Ultimate Good Heart •
- Living With Bodhicitta •
- Pray to Benefit Others •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Portland, Oregon, USA
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins by praising Lama Yeshe's qualities as a hidden meditator with the ability to inspire people from all walks of life. Rinpoche continues with an extensive explanation of how to transform problems into happiness.
Chapters:
Transforming Problems •
How to Be a Real Professional •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This multimedia collection presents chapters from Bodhisattva Attitude, a book that highlights the importance of motivation in our daily lives and activities.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Bodhisattva Attitude Multimedia: About the Series •
Everything Depends on Your Attitude •
Cutting the Concept of Permanence •
Give Up Stretching the Legs •
Four Wrong Concepts •
Bodhisattva Attitude •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Selangor, Malaysia
How to develop compassion and offer perfect service to others.
Chapters:
Subduing Anger Brings Peace •
How to Develop Compassion •
The Purpose of Our Life •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A talk on how to transform problems into happiness by defeating the self-cherishing thought and cherishing others. Rinpoche also advises how Dharma practice in everyday life can help us at the time of death.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Geneva, Switzerland
A public talk on the essential practice of mind training (lo-jong)
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Florence, Italy 1990
After a short discourse on emptiness, Rinpoche teaches tong-len, or taking and giving—the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Actualizing the Wisdom Realizing Emptiness •
Taking the Suffering of Others •
Giving Your Body to Others •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A teaching on the purpose of our life and how to develop a positive attitude, as well as advice on searching for the I.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Sydney, Australia
A public talk on how to transform problems into happiness
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington, New Jersey
A teaching given prior to a ceremony for generating the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Teachings on bodhicitta, adapted by T. Y. Alexander
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Techniques for the practice of mind training
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Instructions on tong-len, the practice of “taking and giving"; the quickest way to generate bodhicitta and achieve enlightenment
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Advice on Tong-len as a Preliminary Practice •
Tong-len: A Short Practice •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Madrid, Spain
A teaching on Chenrezig visualization, the benefits of compassion and laws of karma
Chapters:
Chenrezig Visualization •
Compassion is the Real Answer •
Compassion Creates the Cause for Success •
