Teachings
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Need for Power Comes from Attachment
Rinpoche explains how Dharma practice protects us in this teaching excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Dissatisfaction is the Result of Desire
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how freedom from the eight worldly concerns creates real peace, in this teaching excerpt from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course.
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.
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
Anger, attachment and ignorance are the cause of all our suffering
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Attachment and Past Lives
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
Rinpoche discusses in depth the process one should take when making preparations for death and giving the gift of life through organ donation
In this excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that a happy life is due to good motivation and actions which bring good results.