Making this Precious Human Life Meaningful
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that practicing contentment, patience and the good heart can bring happiness for oneself and others.
Teachings
Limitless Love
Lama Yeshe discusses cultivating bodhicitta and limitless love.
Topics:
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Transforming Our Surroundings
Lama Yeshe explains how we can be happy anywhere.
Transforming Problems
Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.
A Positive Way of Thinking
Dealing With Sadness
Dealing with Depression
Enduring Hardships
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The Benefits of Bodhicitta
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on the negative mind and the nature and value of bodhicitta, especially for those wishing to cultivate world peace.
Topics:
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Practices to Purify Negative Karma
Advice about purification of past nonvirtuous actions and negative karma, through Vajrasattva and other practices.
Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice
Constant Obstacles
Diamond Cutter Sutra and Prostrations
How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma
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Tonglen: Taking and Giving
Advice on the practice of tonglen (taking and giving).
A Magnet for Bad Situations
Advice for a Homeless Man Practicing Tonglen
Become Special by Practicing Tonglen
Daily Practice of Taking and Giving
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Having a Good Heart
Rinpoche discusses the importance of practicing bodhicitta and the good heart in this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course.
Topics:
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta
Mahayana Mind Training
Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.
Burdened by Obstacles
Everything Comes from the Mind
Experiencing Problems for Others
How to Enjoy Obstacles
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Seeing the Suffering of Others
In this teaching excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that when we think of the deep suffering of others, we have no choice; compassion must arise for them.
Nyung Näs
Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
700 Nyung Näs Seems Good
A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Nyung Näs
A Powerful Practice
A Quick Way to Purify Obscurations
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Nyung Nä Teachings at Lawudo (1977)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a nyung nä retreat at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, in June 1977.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices
Chapters:
1. The Benefits of Nyung Nä
2. The Qualities of Chenrezig
3. Purifying Ordinary Perception
4. Meditation on the Six Deities
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Nourishing Our Loving Kindness Wisdom Energy
Lama Yeshe discusses the profound yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso in this excerpt from a commentary given at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, in September 1983.
You Are Loving Kindness Wisdom Energy
Lama Yeshe discusses our potential for pure love, compassion and wisdom in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, in September 1983.
The Door to All Happiness
Rinpoche advises the infinite benefits of cherishing even one sentient being in this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32.
Topics:
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta