In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.
Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.
Advice on daily practices recommended by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for students on the path to enlightenment.
Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.
Advice to students about restoring their daily practice after it has lapsed.
Extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on which practices should be done daily.
The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.
How to purely dedicate the merit for the happiness of others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses techniques for cutting through depression in this excerpt from a teaching at the 28th Kopan Course in 1995.
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice.
How to use depression to develop compassion and bodhicitta, and ultimately to achieve enlightenment.
