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.
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.
Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises students to make the retreat most beneficial by striving to subdue the mind.
Read Chapter 7 of Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe. This chapter describes the lamas' pilgrimage to Lawudo and the beginnings of Kopan Monastery in 1969.
Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.
An interview with the directors and staff of O Sel Ling Retreat Centre about the benefits of the retreat center.
A teaching about the life of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, a great bodhisattva and scholar from the Kinnaur region of Himachal Pradesh, northern India.
Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship
Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes the life and work of the great bodhisattva Atisha.
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A description of chulen (taking the essence) pills and the methods for practicing a pill retreat.
