
Teachings
A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.
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.
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
A step-by-step guide on how to realize emptiness and cut the root of samsara.
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
How to meditate on emptiness in whatever activity we are doing.
A teaching given prior to a ceremony for generating the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Why Dharma?
Anger, attachment and ignorance are the cause of all our suffering
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how delusion and karma bind us to samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 11th Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Nature of Ignorance
Excerpts from teachings given in Singapore. Includes a talk on how the Kopan courses began.
Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it
An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma