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Lama Yeshe in Sweden, 1983
Teachings

Motivation for Offering Service

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this inspiring talk at the European Regional Meeting in June 2014. Rinpoche teaches on the four immeasurables and the kindness of others, and advises why Western students need to actualize the path.

Feeling Suicidal

Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.

Child Depressed and Suicidal Contemplating Suicide Depression After Best Friend Passed Away Depression and Suicidal Thoughts + View All

Desire and Attachment

Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.

A Vacation from Attachment Attachment and Ordination Attachment to a Good Reputation Clinging to Worldly Pleasure + View All

Anger

Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace. 

Angry With Organization Contribution to World Peace Dealing with Anger Eliminating Anger + View All