Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Shopping With Dharma in Your Heart
Lama Yeshe advises how to meditate on emptiness in this excerpt from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method given in May 1980.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to integrate Dharma into our everyday life in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Taking Care of the Mind
In this teaching Rinpoche advises the importance of protecting our mind from anger, attachment and ignorance.
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Meditate on the Refuge and Bodhicitta Prayer
In this meditation on the refuge and bodhicitta prayer, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make the prayer most meaningful and heartfelt.
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the wisdom realizing emptiness eradicates ignorance, just as a vacuum cleaner or broom removes dust.