Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
Teachings
Emptiness Meditation
Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
A Verse for Meditation on Emptiness
Emptiness Meditation While Walking
Emptiness of the Real I
Getting Depressed by Emptiness
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Being Aware of the Illusion
In this excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that everything which appears as real is a projection, like a dream, and recommends practicing this awareness in daily life.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist
Meditation Is Action
Lama Yeshe discusses the benefits of meditation practice in this teaching given at Manjushri Institute in September 1976.
Be Brave for Liberation
Lama Yeshe advises students to avoid extremes and abide in meditation with intensive awareness in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given in Italy, September 1983.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Ground Zero: Emptiness as the Basis for Deity Yoga
Lama Yeshe advises how to meditate on emptiness in this excerpt from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method given in May 1980.
Topics:
Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice
Meditation on the Clarity of Mind
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
The Clear Light Nature of the Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of Mind
Visualizing Yourself as a Deity
Lama Yeshe discusses tantric meditation experience in this teaching excerpt from A Commentary on the Yoga Method of Divine Wisdom Manjushri.
Long Retreat
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Long Retreat
Before Starting Three-Year Retreat
Completion of Three Year Retreat
Completion of Three-Year Vajrayogini Retreat
Continue With Lamrim in Long Retreat
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How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Lamrim Retreat
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Topics:
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Lamrim Retreat
Basic Program and Lamrim Retreat
Lamrim Retreat Advice
Lamrim Retreat at Lawudo
Numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Love You
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The Root of Samsara According to the Four Schools
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
Topics:
Emptiness
The Middle Way Between the Two Extremes
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
Topics:
Emptiness > How Things Exist