Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Rinpoche discusses the meaning of buddha nature, our potential to become a buddha, in this teaching excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
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.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that all our happiness and suffering come from the mind, and if there is no anger, there is no external enemy.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: We All Have Many Lifetimes
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Path to Ultimate Happiness
A teaching on buddha nature and the emptiness of the mind.
A public talk on how to bring peace and happiness to oneself and others.
In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains how the hallucinatory mind sees everything as inherently existent
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Mind, Consciousness, and Buddha Nature
A Dharma talk explaining the mind, or cognition
A teaching on the mind, the death process and the ultimate nature of the I