The Wisdom of Renunciation
Lama Yeshe discusses renouncing unrealistic grasping attitudes.
Lama Yeshe discusses renouncing unrealistic grasping attitudes.
Lama Yeshe explains that our experience of life is shaped primarily by the mental attitudes we cultivate.
In this excerpt from the 52nd Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that everything which appears as real is a projection, like a dream, and recommends practicing this awareness in daily life.
Lama Yeshe advises how to meditate on emptiness in this excerpt from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method given in May 1980.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses wrong view and the urgency of realizing emptiness in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
In this excerpt from the 26th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche used the example of the table to explain emptiness according to the Prasangika Madhyamaka view.
In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that all things are transitory and empty of inherent existence.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that we live our entire life grasping at the real I, but in Buddhism we learn that the way the self appears is a total hallucination.
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that the wisdom realizing emptiness eradicates ignorance, just as a vacuum cleaner or broom removes dust.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to meditate on emptiness in daily life in this excerpted teaching.