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Lama Yeshe in Sweden, 1983
Teachings

Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison

This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice to prison inmates drawn from more than 100 letters he has written to prisoners over the years. Read excerpts and order a copy.

 

Chapters:
Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison Editor's Preface 1: Prison Is Not the Real Prison 2: Prison Can Be Your Hermitage + View all

Feeling Suicidal

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.

Child Depressed and Suicidal Contemplating Suicide Depression After Best Friend Passed Away Depression and Suicidal Thoughts + View All

Desire and Attachment

Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.

A Vacation from Attachment Attachment and Ordination Attachment to a Good Reputation Clinging to Worldly Pleasure + View All

Anger

Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace. 

Angry With Organization Contribution to World Peace Dealing with Anger Eliminating Anger + View All