Lama Yeshe explains that our experience of life is shaped primarily by the mental attitudes we cultivate.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.

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.

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

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

The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts

Explaining how by overcoming attachment to ordinary pleasure, we open the way to the joy of inner liberation.

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

We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.

This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.

Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings real happiness and peace of mind