Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.

Rinpoche discusses the merit of offering to a holy object, even if we don’t have a pure motivation, in this teaching excerpt from the 32nd Kopan Course. 

In this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 38, Rinpoche explains how to collect extensive merit in everyday life by making offerings to the Buddha.

A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on impermanence and death, excerpted from the 26th Kopan Course.

In this excerpt from the 30th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that we need to practice mindfulness, seeing that all causative phenomena are in the nature of impermanence.

In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of offering to holy objects. Even a small offering to the Buddha creates the cause for ultimate happiness, due to the power of the object.

In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.

A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.

Teachings by Lama Yeshe on impermance and death, adapted by T. Y. Alexander

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches via live stream to students in Singapore and around the world.

Life finishes quickly, like autumn clouds or lightning in the sky

Death is definite and this precious human body is more valuable than a mountain of diamonds.

Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful method to protect us from the delusions.