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Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Long Life Puja, Kopan Monastery, Nepal.

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LYWA Multimedia: The Seven-Limb Practice

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Lama Yeshe with students at the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973.

1973: First Steps, First Students

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On the Road with Rinpoche: How Should We Practice Dharma?

While waiting in the airport, Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers the students' sincere question "How should we practice Dharma?" Filmed in Taiwan on March 4, 2013 by Ven Thubten Kunsang. Learn more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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September 19, 2018 at 03:03pm

Somehow you have to learn to let your pleasures go without grasping at them neurotically. This is very important. That’s why Buddhist philosophy teaches that the whole world is like an illusion--you cannot hold an illusion permanently; there is no solidity. What you enjoy from moment to moment cannot be held permanently. Its nature is impermanent, transitory; it passes, passes, goes, goes, finishes, finishes. That’s the whole reality of life. Therefore, it is very important to be aware of and accept that kind of reality, as it is. You can do it. The Western ego suffers greatly because of the quickly changing nature of society. When you find you cannot function because society is moving so quickly, you blame society. The nature of society is that it is going to change; it is your own nature to change; it’s the nature of weather to change. Therefore, it is very important that your attitude is such that you follow the middle path and avoid extremes. Lama Yeshe

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