Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that everything which appears as real is a hallucination, a projection, like a dream. Rinpoche recommends practicing this awareness while walking, shopping or going on pilgrimage.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Seeing Things as a Hallucination
Lama Thubten Yeshe: The Total Reality of All Existence
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Recognizing the False I
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.