Teachings
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that we live our entire life grasping at the real I, but in Buddhism we learn that the way the self appears is a total hallucination.
Topics: Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in North Carolina, USA
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the wisdom realizing emptiness eradicates ignorance, just as a vacuum cleaner or broom removes dust.
Topics: Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
- The Merely Imputed I •
- Meditation on Emptiness •
- Meditations for Inner Peace •
- How to Realize Emptiness •
- Getting Depressed by Emptiness •
- Response to Questions on Emptiness •
- More Talks on this Topic: Emptiness •
- The Merely Labeled I •
- The Real I Cannot Be Found •
- The Object to Be Refuted •
- Emptiness Meditation While Walking •
- Stable Awareness of Emptiness •
- A Verse for Meditation on Emptiness •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to meditate on emptiness in daily life in this excerpted teaching.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the merely labeled I in this excerpt from a teaching given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in 2012.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
Lama Yeshe discusses meditation experience in tantric practice.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Australia
Lama Yeshe discusses how to use intensive wisdom to gain insight into the illusory nature of reality. Also included is a short interview.
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Dharamsala, India
Lama responds to student questions about the practice of mahamudra.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
How to recognize that everything is like an illusion or a dream.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
Rinpoche's teachings on the emptiness of the "I" are presented here in a multimedia format.
Topics: Emptiness
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Adelaide, Australia
A teaching on buddha nature and the emptiness of the mind.
Topics: Emptiness > Nature of Mind
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Crestone, CO USA June 2008
These teachings were given in June 2008 at the White Eagle Conference Center in Crestone, Colorado.
Chapters:
Day One Part A: Searching for the I; Why We Suffer; Why We Need to Practice Dharma •
Day One Part B: Positive Attitude; Taking Care of Yourself; Dedications •
Day Two Part A: Benefits of Compassion; Three Types of Suffering; Dedications •
Day Two Part B: Tantra Mahamudra; Decorating True Existence •
Day Two Part C: Recognizing Wrong Concepts; Sutra Mahamudra •
Day Three Part A: Oral Transmission of the Mahamudra Text •
Day Three Part B: Bearing Hardships; Lama Atisha •
Day Three Part C: Precious Human Rebirth; Kindness of the Guru; Guru Shakyamuni Buddha Mantra •
Day Four Part A: Benefits of Medicine Buddha; Medicine Buddha Jenang •
Day Four Part B: Medicine Buddha Jenang (conclusion) •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Vulture's Peak, Bihar, India
A step-by-step guide on how to realize emptiness and cut the root of samsara.
Topics: Emptiness > How Things Exist
