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

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

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 two-day commentary and partial oral transmission of the Sutra of Golden Light.

A commentary and partial oral transmission of the first seven chapters of the Golden Light Sutra given at New York's Tibet House, September 2007.

Rinpoche gives a partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra and teaches extensively on emptiness and other topics, including how to achieve happiness, why we need compassion and karma.

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

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

This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.

Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings real happiness and peace of mind

A teaching on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita