Teachings
A talk to workers at the hospice about the benefits of serving others with a sincere heart
A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma
If there is no true cause of suffering, there is no reason why we should have to experience suffering or problems
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: Why Dharma?
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.
How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
Happiness and suffering arise in dependence on the mind.
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.
An edited public talk on lam-rim by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.