Teachings

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

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By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Cherishing Others More than Myself

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Forthcoming in early 2025, this book features a collection of photos of the soft toys, also known as plushies, which were inscribed with Dharma messages and mantras by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and later gifted to delighted students around the world

Chapters:
Preface •
Acknowledgements •
Introduction •
The World People Are Suffering So Much •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Rinpoche teaches that our purpose is to bring all beings to buddhahood.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

In this excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that everything which appears as real is a projection, like a dream, and recommends practicing this awareness in daily life.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the importance of practicing bodhicitta and the good heart in this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course.

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Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.

The Merit of Study  •
The Merit of Working for the Guru •
Recitations for Rinpoche’s Health and Long Life •
Thanks for Your Service to the Guru •
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Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.

Experiencing Problems for Others •
The Kindness of All Sentient Beings •
My Feet Belong to Sentient Beings •
How to Respond to Dishonesty •
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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on practices for success and harmony at the Dharma center.

Change Zoning of the Center •
Advice for Meditators at Shine Retreat Land •
Applying for a Permit •
How to Bless Tea •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal

In this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that when we think of the deep suffering of others, we have no choice; compassion must arise for them.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Compassion Has to Arise!

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Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.

Being in Prison •
Preliminaries and Other Practices in Prison •
A Nun in Jail •
The Prison is Your Retreat House •
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Letters and advice sent to dignitaries and students regarding resolution of conflict and how to bring peace and happiness to the region.

Advice for the Whole Country •
Practices for Columbia •
The Situation in Tibet •
A Letter to the King of Nepal •
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Advice on how to integrate the three principal aspects of the path—renunciation, bodhicitta and right view (of emptiness)—into our working life.

Transforming Attitude   •
Working With Devotion •
Bodhisattva Attitude •
Motivation for Paying Tax •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush

Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Seeing Things as a Hallucination

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