Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that Dharma practice needs continual effort for a long time in order to achieve liberation and enlightenment, in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.

In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.

We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts 

The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts

The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions

How to deal with attachment, so we remain calm and clear when experiencing pleasure.

The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings

When the mind is under the control of disturbing thoughts there is no peace or happiness