Intellectual Understanding Isn’t Enough
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions.
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.
Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course.
In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.
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.
Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.
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.
Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.
Advice on how to correctly visualize certain deities during one's meditation practice.