Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Advice on Transforming Depression •
So Much to Rejoice In •
Depressed and Unsure Where to Live •
Daughter with Depression •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Australia
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Medford, USA
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
Suicidal Thoughts, Depression, PTSD and Self-harm •
Tired and Thinking About Death •
Thoughts of Suicide •
Wanting to Commit Suicide •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1995
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses techniques for cutting through depression in this excerpt from a teaching at the 28th Kopan Course in 1995.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in various locations
How to use depression to develop compassion and bodhicitta, and ultimately to achieve enlightenment.
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Negative Emotions > Depression > Purifying Depression
Practices for Depression •
Problems Come From Karma and Delusions •
The Mind is Pure by Nature •
Purification Practice for Depression •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Use Your Depression to Destroy the Ego •
Long-term Depression •
Ways to Think about Depression •
Using Depression on the Path •
