Lama Yeshe advises students to avoid extremes and abide in meditation with intensive awareness in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given in Italy, September 1983.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
An interview with the directors and staff of O Sel Ling Retreat Centre about the benefits of the retreat center.
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
A description of chulen (taking the essence) pills and the methods for practicing a pill retreat.
