Lama Yeshe explains that our experience of life is shaped primarily by the mental attitudes we cultivate.

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

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.

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.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.

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

Explaining how by overcoming attachment to ordinary pleasure, we open the way to the joy of inner liberation.

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.

We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.

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