How to make eating the cause of enlightenment for oneself and all other sentient beings. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.
Archetypal images of enlightened beings symbolize wisdom and understanding, and give positive imprints to the mind.
How painful experiences help us develop a deeper understanding that is beyond the merely intellectual.
How to establish our motivation so each day is meaningful
This book is drawn from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s graduated path to enlightenment (lamrim) teachings given over a four-decade period, starting from the early 1970s.
Whenever we’re practicing Dharma in daily life, at that time we’re taking care of ourselves.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the special meaning and purpose of this human rebirth in this excerpt from the Seventh Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.
How to transform sleep into virtue by practicing the yoga of sleeping
We don't have to live in a hermitage to generate the realizations of the stages of the path to enlightenment
With this human body we have the opportunity to practice virtue and abandon nonvirtue
Excerpts from teachings on Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
The importance of putting effort into Dharma practice during and after the Kopan meditation course. This teaching is an edited excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.
How all our actions can become virtuous and we can accumulate merit
The meaning of Dharma and how to practice is explained by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it
