Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on various practices and mantras for animals, including those which are sick and dying.
- How to Benefit Animals •
- Building an Animal Sanctuary •
- Compassion Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
- Advice About Caring for Dogs •
- Take Care of Animals with Compassion •
- Practices to Benefit a Cat •
- How to Help Animals Harmed by Gardening •
- How to Help Cows and All Sentient Beings •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
- 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 •
Find links to the new translation of Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as well as many other Russian translations of books and teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Translations > Russian
Read the Hebrew translation of Becoming Your Own Therapist, now available as a free PDF file.
Topics: Translations > Hebrew
By Lama Thubten Yeshe
Our latest free book by Lama Yeshe has arrived! Order your copy here.
Topics: Introductory
Chapters:
Knowledge-Wisdom •
Preface •
7. The Experiential Nature of Lord Buddha’s Teachings •
9. Anxiety in the Nuclear Age (1) •
10. Anxiety in the Nuclear Age (2) •
11. Christmas Dharma •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama Thubten Yeshe: Dharma in Daily Life
Topics: Monthly E-letter
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
A brief outline of tonglen, the meditation practice of generating bodhicitta by taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness,
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
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 purify negative karma in relation to the guru, given to students confessing mistakes.
- Regretting Anger Toward Rinpoche •
- Confession of Anger •
- Confessing Mistakes •
- Confessing Negative Thoughts •
- Heavy Karma of Criticizing the Guru •
- Mitukpa Mantra and Being Vegetarian •
- Not Following the Guru’s Advice •
- Degeneration of Guru Devotion •
- Impatient and Upset at the Teachings •
- Confession of Anger and Worry About Cognitive Decline •
- Criticizing the Guru and Causing Problems at the Dharma Center •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
- Accepting Karma •
- Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
- Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
- Everything is Produced by Karma •
- Result of Past Karma •
- Karma and Its Results •
- Good Karma of Caring For Animals •
- Think of the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
- The Karma of Harming Others •
- Treat Others Peacefully, Be a Good Example to the World •
- It Is Best to Live in Morality •
- The Power of Dharma Practice •
- Happiness Comes from Cherishing Others •
- The Merit Will Run Out •
- The Truth Will Win •
- Dharma Practice Is So Important •
- Suffering Comes from the Mind •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush
Lama T hubten Yeshe: Teaching Dharma to Westerners
Topics: Monthly E-letter
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice and methods for purifying past nonvirtuous actions.
- How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
- Purifying Negative Karma •
- Mantras for Purifying Negativities •
- Practices for Purification •
- Tsa-tsas for Purification and Merit •
- Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice •
- Diamond Cutter Sutra and Prostrations •
- Purification Practices, Water Bowls and Tong-len •
- Purifying Sexual Misconduct •
- Stupa Tsa-tsas for Purification •
- Mitukpa and Prostrations •
- How to Purify Sexual Misconduct •
- More Talks on this Topic: Practices to Purify Negative Karma •
- Purifying the Karma of Killing Many Fish •
- Motivation for Vajrasattva Recitations •
- Why Vajrasattva Practice Is So Important •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
- Completion Stage Practices •
- Request for Initiation •
- Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
- Deity Practice •
- Generating as a Deity •
- Self-Initiation and Mahamudra Meditation •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Personal Deity for Tantric Practice •
- Five Buddha Types •
- Request to Practice Six Yogas of Naropa •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- How to Achieve Enlightenment Quickly •
- Six-Session Guru Yoga •
- Method and Wisdom in Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Generation and Completion Stage Practices •
- How to Quickly Achieve Full Enlightenment •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India
In this teaching excerpt, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the great Kadampa master, Dromtönpa, who completely abandoned all worldly activities and devoted himself correctly to his guru, Lama Atisha.
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
