
Teachings
Detailed instructions on the refuge preliminary practice, compiled and edited by Ven. Thubten Wongmo
Teachings prior to a refuge ceremony on topics including the suffering nature of samsara, refuge practice and precepts
Three discourses on how to subdue the mind and achieve enlightenment by practicing the graduated path (lamrim).
Excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas. In this book, Rinpoche explains how desire and attachment are the cause of our problems and how to abandon these negative minds in order to find perfect peace and happiness.
With this human body we have the opportunity to practice virtue and abandon nonvirtue
We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.
Four discourses, on topics including how to make life meaningful, the concept of true existence and renouncing desire
To eliminate suffering and obtain happiness, the most important thing is to have a good heart
Teachings on karma, excerpted from a lamrim course led by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Maitreya Instituut, Emst, in August 1990.
A teaching about guru devotion to mark the occasion of Ösel Hita's fifth birthday
A verse-by-verse commentary on the prayer Calling the Guru from Afar
In this short teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of renunciation, right view and bodhicitta
These teachings include oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
The karmic results of nonvirtuous actions are experienced in this life or in future lives, unless we purify the negative karma.
Excerpts from teachings on Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Transformation