Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.

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

The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions

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.

In order to control anger, we must reflect well on its shortcomings

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.

The real hero is the person who fights anger and defeats the inner enemy, the delusions.