Lama Yeshe advises students to avoid extremes and abide in meditation with intensive awareness in this excerpt from a commentary on the yoga method of Gyalwa Gyatso given in Italy, September 1983.
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
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 extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.
A teaching on impermanence at the Seventh Kopan Meditation Course, November, 1974.
An interview with the directors and staff of O Sel Ling Retreat Centre about the benefits of the retreat center.
Teachings by Lama Yeshe on impermance and death, adapted by T. Y. Alexander
