Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's collected teachings on bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, with inspiring verses and commentary on seminal texts by Khunu Lama Rinpoche and Shantideva.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
The Nectar of Bodhicitta •
Editor's Preface •
Do Everything With Bodhicitta •
This Precious Life •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Institut Vajra Yogini, France
Read two new chapters in this series, Lectures 10 and 11, in which Rinpoche discusses refuge and bodhicitta, and explains Shakyamuni Buddha's holy name and mantra.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim)
Chapters:
1. How to Achieve Real Happiness •
2. Motivation for the Retreat •
3. The Emptiness of Sound •
4. The Compassion Buddha •
5. The Good Heart •
6. Meditation on Emptiness •
7. Everything Comes from the Mind •
8. The Purpose of Our Life •
9. The Eight Mahayana Precepts •
10. Refuge and Bodhicitta •
11. Shakyamuni Buddha Name and Mantra •
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita, a ninth-century Indian scholar, combines teachings on lojong (mind training) with the lamrim, especially karma. This text is now freely available for download as a PDF file.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chokyi Gyaltsen Center, Penang, Malaysia
In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to experience disease and other problems for all sentient beings.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How a Positive Label Creates the Cause for Happiness
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: How to Transform Obstacles
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Portland, Oregon, USA
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins by praising Lama Yeshe's qualities as a hidden meditator with the ability to inspire people from all walks of life. Rinpoche continues with an extensive explanation of how to transform problems into happiness.
Chapters:
Transforming Problems •
How to Be a Real Professional •
By Tenzin Ösel Hita in Institut Vajra Yogini, France
A talk by Ösel about developing a positive attitude and inner values.
Topics: Introductory
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Inner Winning is the Real Winning
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A talk on how to transform problems into happiness by defeating the self-cherishing thought and cherishing others. Rinpoche also advises how Dharma practice in everyday life can help us at the time of death.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Geneva, Switzerland
A public talk on the essential practice of mind training (lo-jong)
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Florence, Italy 1990
After a short discourse on emptiness, Rinpoche teaches tong-len, or taking and giving—the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Chapters:
Actualizing the Wisdom Realizing Emptiness •
Taking the Suffering of Others •
Giving Your Body to Others •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia 1991
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Happiness Depends on Transforming the Mind
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A teaching on the purpose of our life and how to develop a positive attitude, as well as advice on searching for the I.
