Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.
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 explains that everything comes from karma, so we can create suffering or happiness, enlightenment or hell.
In this teaching excerpt Lama Yeshe discusses death and rebirth in various realms of cyclic existence.
In this teaching Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma, the actions of body, speech and mind.
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.
