Teachings
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Twofold Benefit of Bodhicitta
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
In this unedited excerpt, Rinpoche encourages us to take advantage of this precious and rare opportunity to study the profound meaning of emptiness.
A two-day seminar in which Rinpoche teaches on emptiness, compassion, guru devotion and other topics.
A speech by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the opening of a new building for Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore.
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.
Teachings prior to a refuge ceremony on topics including the suffering nature of samsara, refuge practice and precepts
We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Shortcomings of Samsara
Teachings given at Root Institute, Days 5 - 7; includes a commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland