In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.

In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the realization of emptiness is the most important goal in our life, so that we can cease suffering and its cause, delusion and karma.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Dharma provides us with a method to achieve happiness and avoid suffering in this excerpt from a two-week lamrim course held in California in 1977.

A teaching on the first of the six types of suffering

If there is no true cause of suffering, there is no reason why we should have to experience suffering or problems

After attaining enlightenment, how Buddha began teaching the spiritual path to others, commonly known as turning the wheel of Dharma.

The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.

Extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on which practices should be done daily.

How to purely dedicate the merit for the happiness of others

A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for practices for the rest of his life. Rinpoche responded with this advice. 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama outlined each of the four noble truths in this teaching in Dharamsala in 1981.

Two days of teachings on this core topic in Buddhism.