With this human body we have the opportunity to practice virtue and abandon nonvirtue

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

Four discourses, on topics including how to make life meaningful, the concept of true existence and renouncing desire

To eliminate suffering and obtain happiness, the most important thing is to have a good heart

Teachings on karma, excerpted from a lamrim course led by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Maitreya Instituut, Emst, in August 1990.

Lightly edited teachings from the Amitabha and White Tara initiations and retreat held at Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan, in February 2007.

A teaching on the four opponent powers, a practice that purifies negative karma and obscurations

Lightly edited excerpts from a one-month Mitukpa retreat held in Vermont, USA, 2002.

This commentary includes advice on combining the practice with prostrations and lamrim meditation.

A teaching about guru devotion to mark the occasion of Ösel Hita's fifth birthday

A verse-by-verse commentary on the prayer Calling the Guru from Afar

In this short teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of renunciation, right view and bodhicitta

These teachings include oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and the Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The karmic results of nonvirtuous actions are experienced in this life or in future lives, unless we purify the negative karma.

A teaching by abbot Achos Rinpoche, with a commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.