This excerpt comes from a teaching Lama Yeshe gave on the importance of cultivating mindful awareness in our actions and a clear understanding of karma.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 51st Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 52nd Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 40th Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 39th Kopan Meditation Course.

In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 32nd Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 38th Kopan Meditation Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 31st Kopan Meditation 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.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 26th Kopan Meditation Course.

Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 30th Kopan Course in Nepal.

In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.

In this excerpt from the 50th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that happiness and suffering arise from the mind, just as a shadow follows the body.