Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Twofold Benefit of Bodhicitta
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Pomaia, Italy
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Renunciation
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Gyalwa Gyatso Center, San Jose, California
In this unedited excerpt, Rinpoche encourages us to take advantage of this precious and rare opportunity to study the profound meaning of emptiness.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tara Institute, Melbourne, Australia
A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.
Chapters:
We are Extremely Fortunate •
Make the Mind Wet •
How We Hold Onto the I •
Meditation on Emptiness •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore
A speech by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the opening of a new building for Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
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.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
Chapters:
We Will Keep Meeting Again and Again Until We Are Free From Samsara •
Subduing the Mind •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Jamyang Meditation Centre, London 1992
Teachings prior to a refuge ceremony on topics including the suffering nature of samsara, refuge practice and precepts
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Refuge
Chapters:
The Suffering Nature of Samsara •
Refuge Practice and Precepts •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Renunciation
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1992
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Renunciation
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Topics: Sickness and Health
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India 2006
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Shortcomings of Samsara
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India; 26 December 2003 - 02 January 2004
Teachings given at Root Institute, Days 5 - 7; includes a commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
Topics: Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Cherishing the practice and turning away from samsaric happiness •
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting ordination by reflecting on impermanence and suffering of samsara •
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting the senses by analyzing how attachment arises •
Day Five: Dedications •
