Teachings
Rinpoche asks students to abandon eating meat and become vegetarian. Rinpoche also discusses animal liberation and other ways to benefit animals, and explains our karmic connection with animals.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Why Be a Vegetarian
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the direct and indirect benefits for all sentient beings that will result from the construction of a large Maitreya statue.
A public talk on how to bring peace and happiness to oneself and others.
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.
A talk to workers at the hospice about the benefits of serving others with a sincere heart
Two discourses on topics including emptiness of the I, impermanence and death, and transforming problems
In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27 in 1994, Rinpoche explains that if the cause is not created, the result cannot be experienced.
Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma
A short teaching on the benefits of purifying negative karma, given before a Vajrasattva jenang.
Rinpoche explains the benefits of mani pills, the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, and the importance of purifying negative karma in this evening session during the 100 Million Mani Retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Australia.
When we practice thought training, experiencing problems becomes a cause for finishing the results of negative karma
Extracts from teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe on the practice of Vajrasattva