Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Tara Institute, Melbourne, Australia
A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.
Chapters:
We are Extremely Fortunate •
Make the Mind Wet •
How We Hold Onto the I •
Meditation on Emptiness •
Ego Wants So Many Things •
A Good Heart a Day •
You Have Time to Get It Done •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, Australia, 2000
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.
Topics: Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
Chapters:
The Yoga of Offering Food •
Read The Yoga of Offering Food •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Vulture's Peak, Bihar, India
A step-by-step guide on how to realize emptiness and cut the root of samsara.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Topics: Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Chapters:
How the I is Merely Labeled •
The Real Refuge •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
How to meditate on emptiness in whatever activity we are doing.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington, New Jersey
A teaching given prior to a ceremony for generating the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal 1973
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Why Dharma?
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1975
Anger, attachment and ignorance are the cause of all our suffering
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
How delusion and karma bind us to samsara.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Delusions
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Auckland, New Zealand November 1990
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Nature of Ignorance
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore 2009
Excerpts from teachings given in Singapore. Includes a talk on how the Kopan courses began.
Topics: Introductory
Chapters:
How karma comes from ignorance: Part A •
How karma comes from ignorance: Part B •
The inspiration for the Kopan courses •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in New Delhi, India, 1979
Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it
Topics: Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973
An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma
Topics: Death and Transitions > Death and Rebirth
