Advice on how to train the mind in guru devotion, and what to do when we have negative thoughts, criticize the guru and see faults in the guru.
Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru. This advice was given to students confessing mistakes.
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 50th Kopan Course in Nepal.
Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of samara in this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 40, 2007.
Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 43rd Kopan Course
In these teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. Now available as an ebook, The Path to Ultimate Happiness.
A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 41st Kopan Course. Includes a talk by Ven. Roger Kunsang on the beginnnings of FPMT.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan 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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises that the best way to help others prepare for death is by offering guidance when they have the capacity to understand and put Dharma into practice.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of providing support for people who are dying, so they can die with a happy and peaceful mind, free from fear and negative emotions.
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 38th Kopan Meditation Course.
In this teaching excerpt from Kopan Course No. 32, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that temporary samsaric pleasure doesn’t last and it eventually becomes the suffering of pain.
