Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look at All Causative Phenomena as Illusory
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
The Purpose of Retreat Is to Subdue Our Mind (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
The Very Heart of Buddhism
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to meditate on emptiness in daily life in this excerpted teaching.
Untying the Beginningless Knot
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the merely labeled I in this excerpt from a teaching given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in 2012.
See Things as a Hallucination
How to recognize that everything is like an illusion or a dream.
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.
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.