Lama Zopa Rinpoche full length teachings
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis podcast brings to you the latest teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in full length. At this point we focus on the Teachings on Though Transformation that Rinpoche started giving in Kopan when COVID hit in early 2020. We are starting with the teaching from 20 July, 2021. New episodes will be published as Rinpoche gives a new teaching.
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06 Exploring Emptiness 22-Apr-2003
April 12, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 140 MBThe teachings of the Buddha provide a universal and fundamental path for liberation from suffering, which encompasses engaging in wholesome actions while refraining from unwholesome ones, subduing the mind, and following the Four Noble Truths. While these teachings might seem peculiar to those unfamiliar, they are universal truths. Understanding karma reveals that positive actions and virtuous thoughts lead to happiness, while negative actions and thoughts result in suffering. Just as docto...
05 Enlightenment through Compassion 21-Apr-2003
April 05, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the importance of helping young people and the concept of universal education as a means to achieve this goal. He expresses a sense of urgency for universal education, as he believes there is a need for a method that can bring peace to individuals and the world, regardless of their religious background. Rinpoche envisions an organization that focuses on youth and promotes universal education, aiming to cultivate good hearts and inspire young individuals to becom...
04 Chenrezig and Gelongma Palmo: Beings of Compassion 20-Apr-2003
March 29, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 161 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche pays homage to Chenrezig (The Compassion Buddha) and Gelongma Palmo, a fully ordained nun who embodied the qualities of the three-time buddhas and had a deep understanding of the past, present, and future. In a blissful realm, a unique lotus was discovered, and the holy child, Chenrezig, was found inside. Chenrezig made a vow to lead all beings to enlightenment and emitted beams from his holy body, liberating beings in the six realms. However, feeling overwhelmed by the ...
03 Meditating on the Emptiness in Sound 20-Apr-2003
March 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche discusses a meditation practice focused on the sound of rain, suggesting two meditations: one on the conventional truth of the rain and the other on the emptiness of the rain. The meditation involves analyzing how the sound of rain appears to one's mind, questioning whether the sound is merely labelled by the mind or if it appears to exist independently from its own side. The correct view, according to the Prasangika school, is that the sound is merely imputed by the mind ...
02 Doing This Retreat is to Repay the Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama 19-Apr-2003
March 15, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to think well about why we are doing this retreat; about how to make the retreat most beneficial. Many of us received the permission to practice the four Kadampa deities from HIs Holiness the Dalai Lama, and so doing this retreat well with lam-rim meditation, trying to develop our minds in the path to enlightenment, is to repay His Holiness’s kindness. Rinpoche also dedicates the retreat that the political leaders in mainland China come to recognize that His H...
01 The Minute You Cherish Others, There Is Freedom 19-Apr-2003
March 08, 2024 18:00 - 2 hours - 160 MBWithout Lamrim, life is seen as problematic, creating suffering and lacking real happiness. Lamrim practice is more crucial than material wealth, as inner peace and happiness stem from the mind's development. All forms of happiness, whether mundane or supramundane, ultimately originate from Dharma. Having a strong mind, imbued with compassion, wisdom, and an understanding of Dharma, helps diminish the impact of life's difficulties and we can effectively cope with challenges, experiencing mor...
White Tara Practice: Oral Transmission and Visualization
November 30, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBOn April 8, 2023, five days before showing the aspect of passing away, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a White Tara oral transmission and visualization at Kopan Monastery to Glen H. Mullin and a group of his students. This was one of Rinpoche’s last recorded teachings in this life and offers timeless advice on benefiting and cherishing others. Rinpoche begins the White Tara oral transmission at 36:27 of the video
The One Answer Is to Practice Lamrim
November 27, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 219 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings and advice to a group of Vajrasattva retreaters at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9, 2023. In his final teaching from this series, Rinpoche discussed how to develop one's mind in Dharma, the necessity of practising the lamrim and concludes by offering the oral transmission of The Essential Nectar. This was one of the last teaching events Rinpoche offered before showing the aspect of passing away on April 13, 2023.
Imprints Are Very, Very, Very Important
November 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings and advice to a group of Vajrasattva retreaters at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9, 2023. In his second teaching from this series, on April 8, Rinpoche discussed the benefits of purification practice, the necessity of pleasing and receiving the blessings of the guru, the importance of meditating on death and impermanence, and continues offering the oral transmission of The Essential Nectar. This was one of the last teaching events Rinpoche offered b...
Purification Is the Most Important Thing
November 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered teachings and advice to a group of Vajrasattva retreaters at Kopan Monastery on April 7, 8, and 9, 2023. In his first teaching from this series, Rinpoche overviewed some of the many benefits of purification practice and began offering the lung of The Essential Nectar. This was one of the last teaching events Rinpoche offered before showing the aspect of passing away on April 13, 2023.
The Benefits of Offering a Long Life Puja
March 17, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBA long life puja was offered by the entire FPMT organization to Lama Zopa Rinpoche on December 21, 2022 at Kopan Monastery during the fifty-third Kopan lamrim meditation course. This puja was offered in accordance with the advice of Khandro Kunga Bhuma (Khandro-la), and is part of a collection of practices offered for Rinpoche’s health and the well-being of the entire FPMT organization. During this puja, Rinpoche spoke about the meaning and benefits of the long life puja and how to visualiz...
Refuge Ceremony
March 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche began a refuge ceremony on December 25, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery by explaining the importance of relying on Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. By protecting our karma we are able to be free from samsara. Before the refuge ceremony begins (at 13:33), Rinpoche explained the Lesser Vehicle refuge and also Mahayana refuge and shared the motivation for taking refuge. While guiding those in attendance in prostrations, Rinpoche discussed th...
Put All Your Effort into Realizing Dependent Arising
March 05, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBPut all of your effort into realizing dependent arising, Lama Zopa Rinpoche urges in his December 25, 2022 teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. It is childish to believe that things exist from their own side, Rinpoche explains, so don’t cling to hallucinated appearances. Whatever you are doing, meditate on how the I came into existence. Why? Because all problems come from believing that the I exists from its own side. The more you meditate, the m...
Rinpoche Concludes the Oral Transmission of Essential Nectar
March 02, 2023 18:00 - 3 hours - 201 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered the complete oral transmission (lung) of The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine, also known as the Essence of Nectar, one of the eighteen great lamrim texts by Yeshe Tsondro. It was given over two teachings from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery on December 22 and 23, 2022. This recording is the second teaching from December 23. This is one of the most important texts for anyone sincerely studying the lamrim or who receives lamrim prelim...
Rinpoche Begins the Oral Transmission of Essential Nectar
February 19, 2023 18:00 - 3 hours - 209 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered the complete oral transmission (lung) of The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine, also known as the Essence of Nectar, one of the eighteen great lamrim texts by Yeshe Tsondro. It was given over two teachings from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery on December 22 and 23, 2022. This recording is the first teaching from December 22. This is one of the most important texts for anyone sincerely studying the lamrim or who receives lamrim prelimi...
Even Offering a Little Help to Others Is So Important
February 17, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 130 MBIn this world, there are so many ways to help others, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in this teaching given on December 20, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. With a bodhicitta motivation, we receive more than skies of merit, and then we can benefit so many sentient beings. First, we need to equalize ourselves with others, we must cherish others like we cherish ourselves. Secondly, we exchange ourselves with others. Rather than working for ourselves a...
The Special Qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Teachings
February 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBOn the occasion of Lama Tsongkhapa Day, December 18, 2022, Lama Zopa Rinpoche offered a teaching at the fifty-third Kopan November Course about the very special qualities of Lama Tsongkhapa's teachings. One of the qualities is how Lama Tsongkhapa clearly explained the lamrim. This makes it possible for us to not make mistakes on the path to enlightenment. Rinpoche explains that Lama Tsongkhapa received teachings directly from Manjushri, like a guru and disciple in the same room. The essen...
Use Your Body and Bear Hardships to Practice Dharma
February 11, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 129 MBWe bear unbelievable hardships for this body that we cherish more than anything. We keep it clean, spend lots of money on clothes and food for it, spend time exercising, doing hard work for money, and so much worry and fears taking care of the body. This is the same for billionaires and poor people, there is so much discontentment and dissatisfaction, we try to get everything we can from the world, we try to find happiness but we experience continual physical and mental problems, relationshi...
Look at Your Problems as Hallucinations
February 08, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 134 MBAny action stained by the eight worldly dharmas becomes nonvirtue, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in his teaching given on December 16 at Kopan Monastery during the fifty-third lamrim meditation course. Even spending one’s whole life in retreat in a cave in the Himalayan mountains or in Africa somewhere; even if you teach Dharma your whole life, if you do these things with attachment to the happiness and comfort of this life, it becomes negative. To practice Dharma means to renounce the eight w...
Experiencing Others’ Suffering Comes from Understanding Their Kindness
February 05, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBHarming those who harm us is very ignorant, Lama Zopa Rinpoche warns us in his December 15 teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery. Fighting back when someone harms us is the behavior of an animal. We create mountains of negative karma when we fight back due to harming others. The result of this is endless samsaric suffering, it goes on and on and on. Conversely, if we practice patience and compassion and don’t harm others, the result is benefit—we receive ...
Relate Your Own Experiences to How Everything Comes from Your Mind
February 02, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBWhen problems arise in our lives—someone has harmed us or perhaps we have harmed someone, we can relate our own experiences to the meditation on how everything comes from the mind, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in this teaching from December 14 at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. All happiness and suffering comes from the mind—we are the creator, everything we experience comes from our karma. When we don’t accept that what we experience comes from our own mi...
Giving Rise to Virtuous Thoughts Is the Best Preparation for Death
January 31, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBWe should have bodhicitta motivation in our daily life, our work, and in everything we do, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us in this teaching given on December 13, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. This is the best motivation to have—to remember that you are just one and others are numberless. Then there are so many things we do to achieve temporary happiness resulting in so many hardships. We risk danger and death to achieve temporary happiness throu...
The Purpose of Being Born a Human Being Is to Practice the Good Heart
January 28, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBThings can suddenly change in life with no warning, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains in a teaching given at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery on December 12, 2023. We never expect that someone close to our heart could die without warning, but this happens all the time in the world. If there's a strongly grasping mind, we can easily become crazy when this happens, and it can take a long time to recover. In addition, in the West we don’t know how to help the person who d...
Great Compassion Comes from Realizing Samsara Is the Nature of Suffering
January 16, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 151 MB#LamaZopaRinpoche began this teaching, given on December 9, 2022 from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, reminding us that everything comes from the mind—depression, feeling suicidal, and everything we experience. When problems arise it becomes clear whether we are able to actually practice Dharma or not. If we examine our motivation in daily life, what arises is mostly anger and attachment. Virtuous thoughts are very rare. As a result, most of our actions co...
How the Letter Z Comes into Existence
January 12, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 137 MBEverything comes from the mind, #LamaZopaRinpoche reminds us in this second teaching from the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, given on December 8, 2022. Samsara, nirvana, suffering, enlightenment, all appearances we have, anything we hold as good or bad - all of this comes from the mind. Rinpoche uses the letter Z as an example. This letter appears and we hold on to that appearance. In fact, everything is like this. Nothing exists from its own side, not even an atom....
By Studying Buddha Dharma, You Come to Know Yourself
January 08, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 115 MBIn this first teaching #LamaZopaRinpoche offered to the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, on December 7, 2022, Rinpoche thanked everyone for coming to Nepal to learn lamrim (the gradual path to enlightenment) and get to know the mind. The purpose of this is not just to intellectually learn, but to train the mind in non-anger, non-attachment, non-ignorance. We have tried everything for our happiness - studying in the university, trying yoga, so many activities in...
Others’ Happiness Depends on How You Act with Your Body, Speech, and Mind
January 03, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 129 MB#LamaZopaRinpoche offered this teaching at the fifty-third lamrim meditation course at Kopan on December 11, 2022. Other’s happiness depends on how we act with our body, speech, and mind. Not only within our families, but everywhere we go in the world, anyone we meet, even animals, their happiness is in our hands, so we must be kind and peaceful. We have responsibility for the happiness and suffering of others, not just for our own. And everyone is the source of our own happiness—past, p...
The importance of Remembering Impermanence and Death
November 21, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continually stresses the importance of remembering impermanence and death, preparing for our own deaths, and helping others at the time of death. In this teaching, given at Thekchen Choling in Singapore on September 1, Rinpoche reminds us how unbelievably rare it is to receive this perfect human rebirth. Since we have been so fortunate to receive this, and we cannot say for certain when we will die, we must make the most use of the opportunity we have as human beings, in t...
The Long Life Puja Is Not a Real Long Life Puja
October 28, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBDuring a long life puja offered to Rinpoche on September 11 at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, Rinpoche offered the teaching, "The Long Life Puja is Not a Real Long Life Puja." In this teaching, Rinpoche explains many aspects of the long life puja that are so powerful to consider. Requesting the guru to have a long life purifies negative karma created in relation to the guru, Rinpoche explains. Disturbing the guru’s holy mind, having non-devotional thoughts arise, belittling the guru—...
Tonglen Is the Main Practice - Teaching #137
October 24, 2022 20:00 - 3 hours - 175 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in August and September, 2022. Here is a summary of the most recent teaching recorded on September 14, 2022: By not harming others, we are creating the cause for peace in the future, Rinpoche explains. If we fight those who harm us in this life, it creates the cause to fight them again in future lives. This can go on for eons with no peace. Those who win create the cause to lo...
The Benefits of Experiencing Suffering - Teaching #136
October 11, 2022 19:45 - 3 hours - 177 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August and September. Here is a summary of the teaching offered on September 10, 2022: During Rinpoche's September 3 teaching (#134: In Your Life as a Couple, Practice Good Heart), Rinpoche offered the oral transmission for Lama Tsongkhapa's Utilizing Suffering in the Path to Enlightenment. Rinpoche began giving commentary on this important thought transformation text in ...
The Great Difference Between Taking and Not Taking Vows - Teaching #135
October 07, 2022 18:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August and September. Here is a summary of the teaching offered on September 7, 2022: The most important Dharma, Rinpoche teaches us, is compassion. If you are becoming kinder and more compassionate, this means you are practicing Dharma. Rinpoche discusses the importance of taking vows. Our virtue is much more extensive after having taken vows than if we have not taken a...
In Your Life as a Couple, Practice Good Heart - Teaching #134
October 05, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBFor those of us living as a couple in relationships, we need to practice having a good heart. With body, speech, and mind, we have incredible opportunities to collect good karma. If we dedicate our own lives to serving others, to create happiness and reduce suffering in others, then we influence our companions to gradually do the same. This is really offering so much help to them, helping them to be free from samsara and attain enlightenment more quickly. Even if not thinking about enlighte...
How to Make Your Life Happy - Teaching #133
September 21, 2022 08:15 - 3 hours - 254 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary of the teaching offered on August 16, 2022: Rinpoche offers some of the history of how he began teaching courses at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and how the FPMT organization began (starting at 28:12). Real happiness comes from a good heart, Rinpoche reminds us, not come from the outside. Using the example of Milarepa, who externally had nothing but...
Whatever Happens in Your Life, Be Happy - Teaching #132
September 12, 2022 20:30 - 3 hours - 254 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary Thought Transformation video #132, offered on August 14, 2022: Make your suffering into the best happiness, Rinpoche urges us. All of the pain we face in life came from our mind—our self-cherishing thought with attachment, anger, and ignorance harmed others and now we experience the evolution of that. We can use our pain as a cause to achie...
The Purpose of Living Life as a Couple - Teaching #131
September 08, 2022 18:30 - 2 hours - 227 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary of the teaching offered on August 13, 2022: To live life as a couple, you need wisdom and compassion, Rinpoche teaches us. If we don't have this, life together is so much suffering, so many problems. This is due to thinking in the wrong way—with the self-cherishing thought and ignorance, which are the opposite of compassion and wisdom. Depending ...
Anger Destroys Your Happiness - Teaching #130
September 07, 2022 18:00 - 2 hours - 183 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary of the teaching offered on August 10, 2022: It is very important to understand how anger destroys your happiness. By getting angry at a bodhisattva, our merits are destroyed, we will be reborn in hell, and realizations will be delayed. And by getting angry at a buddha, even more merit is destroyed. Since we cannot tell who is a bodhis...
With This Human Rebirth, You Can Be Happy Day and Night
August 25, 2022 18:30 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche offered this teaching on August 7, 2022 to elders who attend Chinese-language Sunday morning talks with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore. This is excellent universal advice for students young and old!
Dharma Is Any Action That Becomes an Antidote to Delusion - Teaching #129
August 24, 2022 23:00 - 2 hours - 183 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden Tendar Ling FPMT Buddhist Center, Aryadeva FPMT Study Group, and the Save Tibet Foundation in Russia. Here is a summary of his August 6, 2022 teaching: Most of the world is suffering, Rinpoche reminds us. Whether rich or poor, there is suffering from disease; dangers of the elements such as earthquakes, floods, or fires; violence...
His Holiness Has Taken the Responsibility to Do the Holy Actions of All the Infinite Buddhas
August 23, 2022 02:30 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBA few hours after his discharge from a hospital in Singapore for a medical procedure, Lama Zopa Rinpoche joined the Amitabha Buddhist Centre (ABC) community in Singapore for their special celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 87th birthday on July 6, 2022. Rinpoche offered incredibly powerful and precious words about His Holiness’s qualities, guru devotion, and impermanence. “Definitely in your heart, rely on His Holiness and often do requests,” Rinpoche advises us. “Request the suc...
The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Understand the Kindness of Sentient Beings - Teaching #128
July 28, 2022 14:00 - 2 hours - 105 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation. Here is a summary of a teaching given on June 26 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden Tendar Ling FPMT Buddhist Center, Aryadeva FPMT Study Group, and the Save Tibet Foundation in Russia. The first kindness of sentient beings is that they are the source of all past, present, and future happiness including enlightenment, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us. They are from whom we recei...
The Foundation of Thought Transformation Is to Stop Harming Others - Teaching #127
July 26, 2022 18:00 - 2 hours - 119 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation. Here is a summary of a teaching given on June 25 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal, at the request of Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Ganden Tendar Ling FPMT Buddhist Center, Aryadeva FPMT Study Group, and the Save Tibet Foundation in Russia. The foundation of thought transformation is to stop harming others, Rinpoche explains. When anything undesirable happens to us, we believe it came from outside, we never relate it ...
Your Main Practice in Life Should Be Cherishing Others - Teaching #126
July 21, 2022 21:30 - 2 hours - 142 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche continues his video teachings on thought transformation from Kopan Monastery in Nepal, offered to students from China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 13. All of the 84,000 teachings of Buddha are included in the advice to not harm sentient beings and to benefit them, Rinpoche explains. If we harm sentient beings, we can’t benefit them. All of the suffering we experience ourselves, as well as the suffering we cause others to experience, is caused by our self-cher...
The Real Refuge Practice Is Cherishing Sentient Beings - Teaching #125
July 21, 2022 02:30 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBRinpoche offered this teaching to students from China and Malaysia via Zoom on June 12, 2022 from Kopan Monastery, Nepal. By taking refuge in the Dharma, we should stop harming sentient beings, Rinpoche reminds us. And more than that, we should benefit them. In fact, the real refuge practice is cherishing sentient beings. If we take care of them the most, if we cherish them the most, that is the best offering to all the Buddhas, Dharma, and Sangha. To show respect for everyone is the best p...
Having Taken Refuge, What to Abandon and What to Practice - Teaching #124
July 19, 2022 02:30 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBRinpoche offered this teaching, recorded on June 11, 2022, at Kopan Monastery in Nepal for a group of students in China and Malaysia. Numberless buddhas of the past, present, and future can see our suffering and that we need happiness, Rinpoche explains. They want to help, they want to guide us. However, from our side, if we don’t rely on them by going for refuge, all of their power together cannot guard us, cannot save us, cannot keep us from the lower realms. Therefore, take refuge in Bu...
The Real Refuge Is Your Wisdom Realizing the Ultimate Nature
July 12, 2022 02:30 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBThis podcast is from a teaching that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave about Buddhist refuge for the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of Human Spirit, an Israel-based Buddhist-psychoanalytic training program over Zoom. Here’s a summary of Rinpoche’s teaching, which was offered on June 8, 2022, from Kopan Monastery in Nepal. All happiness and suffering come from the mind, not from the outside, Rinpoche reminds us. Since we want happiness and don't want suffering, the vast subject of the mind s...
All About Vajrasattva
June 05, 2022 02:30 - 2 hours - 138 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 28, 2022.
Abandoning Nonvirtue Is a Source of Happiness for You
June 02, 2022 02:30 - 2 hours - 127 MBLama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 27, 2022. Here’s a summary of Rinpoche’s teaching. If you want to know the truth of the world, the truth of yourself, and if you want to be free from the oceans of samsaric suffering, then you have to know the root cause of suffering, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains. You need to meet the correct teachings and that depends on merit. And you have to have faith and ...
By Doing Vajrasattva, You Are Doing Exactly What You Need to Do
May 30, 2022 02:30 - 2 hours - 111 MB“Your coming here to do Vajrasattva, wow, that’s really what you need,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche told the students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 26, 2022. In this teaching, Rinpoche discusses how our ignorance leads to attachment and anger, which make us miserable. By attending courses, studying, and meditating, we can come to understand how our our minds hallucinate. The more we understand about emptiness and how things truly exist, the happi...
Why Buddhism Is So Important
May 28, 2022 02:30 - 2 hours - 115 MBOur minds are wrapped up in hallucination, Lama Zopa Rinpoche says in this highly charged teaching recorded on March 30, 2022. Speaking to students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Rinpoche says we must use the wisdom of Buddha’s teachings to see the truth, to recognize all the hallucinations we are wrapped up in. The world has so much suffering due to this ignorance. So it is very important to understand how we hallucinate, Rinpoche explains. The ...