Teachings
In this video extract, Rinpoche advises that it is most important for young people to learn Dharma, to learn about the mind. Equally important is practicing the good heart, patience and contentment.
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: Making Your Mind Vajrayana
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How a Positive Label Creates the Cause for Happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent this advice to a Dharma center which was having difficulties with the decisions and conduct of one of the people working at the center.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Bodhicitta: The Disadvantage of Anger
Teachings on patience, bodhicitta, and reincarnation from the 29th Kopan Course, 1996.
How to practice patience and avoid the eight worldly dharmas.
How to raise children so that their lives are most beneficial.
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it
Equanimity meditation, with techniques for overcoming anger and developing patience.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Practice of the First Three Perfections-con't