Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
This excerpt comes from a teaching Lama Yeshe gave on the importance of cultivating mindful awareness in our actions and a clear understanding of karma.
Lama Yeshe discusses the benefits of meditation practice in this teaching given at Manjushri Institute in September 1976.
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.
A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.
Lama Yeshe discusses tantric meditation experience in this teaching excerpt from A Commentary on the Yoga Method of Divine Wisdom Manjushri.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.
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.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
In this excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that happiness and suffering arise from the mind, just as a shadow follows the body.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that everything comes from karma, so we can create suffering or happiness, enlightenment or hell.
In this teaching Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma, the actions of body, speech and mind.
An introductory teaching on karma given by Lama Yeshe, who explains that every action—positive or negative, good or bad—produces an appropriate result.
Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
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.