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.

Compassion for all living beings is at the heart of Mahayana Buddhist practice

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

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.

We are responsible for the happiness, peace and success of all sentient beings

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

The good heart as the source of all happiness

A teaching on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita

An audio recording and unedited transcript of Chapter One of "How Things Exist."