Teachings

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.

  • Experiencing Problems for Others •
  • The Kindness of All Sentient Beings •
  • My Feet Belong to Sentient Beings •
  • How to Respond to Dishonesty •
  • Offering Service to Others, Who Are Most Precious and Kind •
  • Everything Comes from the Mind •
  • Think How Kind They Are •
  • There Is Nothing That Belongs to You •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.

  • The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
  • Great Compassion for Others •
  • Great Compassion •
  • The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •
  • Essential Advice •
  • Why Compassion is Important •
  • Results of Compassion •
  • The Quick Path to Enlightenment •
  • Compassion is the Basis of Achieving Enlightenment •
  • The Advantages of Cherishing Others •
  • The Quickest Way to Achieve Enlightenment •
  • Every Sentient Being Is Most Precious •
  • Follow Great Compassion •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.

  • Practicing Patience •
  • Generating Bodhicitta  •
  • You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
  • Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
  • Motivation is Most Important •
  • Live Your Life With Bodhicitta •
  • The Ultimate Good Heart •
  • Living With Bodhicitta •
  • Pray to Benefit Others •
  • Ultimate Advice for Success •
  • The Most Important Thing Is Bodhicitta •
  • Motivation for Tara Prayer •
  • What Makes Our Life Most Meaningful •
  • When Others Harm Us •
  • Living Your Life for Others •
  • Remember the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to create the cause of happiness and success in this life and future lives until enlightenment, by practicing compassion, the good heart.

  • A Beneficial Life •
  • Helping Others With a Good Heart •
  • How to Combat Self-cherishing •
  • Our Purpose is to Serve Others •
  • Advice for a Happy Life •
  • Cherishing Others Is the Best Way to Love Yourself •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.

  • A Positive Way of Thinking •
  • Thought Transformation •
  • Practice Thought Transformation •
  • Hardships •
  • When Problems Interfere with Practice •
  • Taking on Obstacles •
  • Dealing With Sadness •
  • Dealing with Depression •
  • More Talks on this Topic: Transforming Problems •
  • Utilizing Obstacles on the Path to Enlightenment •
  • Experience Obstacles for All Sentient Beings •
  • Remedy for Obstacles, Fear and Worry •
  • How to Transform Obstacles •
  • Rejoice in the Problems •
  • The Experience Purifies Your Negative Karma •
  • Experience the Sickness for All Sentient Beings •
  • Experience the Difficulties with a Good Heart •
  • When We Have Bad Experiences •
  • Transforming Sickness •
  • Transforming a Bad Situation •
  • Use the Complaints on the Path to Enlightenment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to develop compassion, the good heart, and bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • A Magnet for Bad Situations •
  • How to Practice Tong-len •
  • Become Special by Practicing Tong-len •
  • Daily Practice of Taking and Giving •
  • Advice for a Homeless Man Practicing Tong-len •
  • Tong-len and the Four Immeasurable Thoughts •
  • Preliminary Practice of Tong-len •
  • Taking the Suffering of Others •
  • The Benefits of Tong-len Practice •
  • Love and Compassion •
  • Tong-len Practice •
  • The Bodhicitta Path •
  • Tong-len Brings You Closer to Enlightenment •
  • Tonglen Prayer •
  • Tonglen Practice for Health Issues •
  • Transforming Obstacles into the Path to Enlightenment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Compassion is of the Utmost Need •
  • The Best Happiness •
  • Object of Cherishing •
  • Loving Kindness •
  • What Makes Life Meaningful •