This talk includes an oral transmission by Lama Zopa Rinpoche of the Golden Light Sutra and is from the second day of a series of teachings given in Barcelona, Spain from September 2nd-4th 2005 hosted by the FPMT’s Centro Nagarjuna. You can read the unedited transcripts for this session and for the entire series of teachings here.
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These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Barcelona, Spain on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of September 2005. This talk is from the second day’s teaching. Hosted by the FPMT’s Centro Nagarjuna. This talk is from the second day of teachings. You can find unedited transcripts of all the teachings from this series here.
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This talk is from the beginning of the second day of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Barcelona, Spain from September 2-4, 2005 hosted by the FPMT’s Centro Nagarjuna. You can find unedited transcripts of this talk and for all the teachings from this series here.
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This talk is the conclusion of the first day’s teaching given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Barcelona, Spain on September 2-4, 2005 and hosted by the FPMT’s Centro Nagarjuna. You can read along to the transcript of this talk and explore all the teachings given in this series.
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This talk is excerpted from the first day of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Barcelona, Spain on September 2-4, 2005 and hosted by the FPMT’s Centro Nagarjuna. You can read along to the transcript here.
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Teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given one evening during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Adelaide, Australia during April-May, 2004. You can read along to the transcript here.
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As long as you don’t drop the burning fire, the fire that burns your hand, the burning cannot be stopped. So like that, as long as one doesn’t abandon the self, the I, one cannot abandon suffering, one cannot be free from the suffering.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides us through the preciousness of our present perfect human rebirth and explains how abandoning the self is the path to freedom from suffering for ourselves and all sentient beings. These teachings were given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in December 2003. Follow along with the transcript on our website.
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By being aware, by knowing about negative karma and all the suffering results, we are persuaded to practice purification.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditation Course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal in 2003. In this session, Rinpoche reminds us of the many kinds of negative karma we constantly accumulate and why it is so vitally important to practice purification every single day. Read along with the transcript of these teachings at https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/lecture-18-how-vajrasattva-practice-purifies-negative-karma
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Letting go of desire is not losing; it is only gaining. It is freeing ourselves from the prison of samsara. We are put in the prison in chains but by letting go of desire we are released; we are free.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
These teachings were given by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2003. In this session, Rinpoche teaches on the shortcomings of desire and how the path to liberation must begin with renunciation. Rinpoche also explains the three scopes of practice and emphasizes that we must practice all three scopes on the graduated path to enlightenment. Read the transcript of these teachings at www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/lecture-5-pervasive-compounding-suffering
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With that continual thought of benefiting other sentient beings, then with every single morsel of food or drop of drink, you collect limitless skies of merit.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditation Course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal in 2003. In this session, Rinpoche teaches how and why to make all our meals the practice of Dharma and the cause of enlightenment. Rinpoche explains in detail the three motivations for making food offerings and then joins the students in a food offering practice. Read along with the transcript of these teachings at https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/lecture-7-yoga-offering-food
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