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There is No Enlightenment Button from 2022-03-28T00:00:36
You can’t attain the path just by knowing the words. You have to practice. Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us that we can’t expect to just press a button, say a few words and become e...
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The King of the Superstitious Mind from 2022-02-25T01:54:22
The basic Buddhist philosophy is that everything comes from karma which comes from your mind, from your intention. Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how imprints condition our mind to ...
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The Long-Life Mantra of White Tara from 2022-01-25T17:28:41
Those sentient beings who accumulate merit, especially the sentient beings who know how to accumulate merit, if they have long life you see, then the longer they live then they are able to make the...
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Subduing the Mind from 2021-11-23T21:58:44
If one practices mindfulness in the reality of these things, that which is impermanence, there is liberation from samsara. Lama Zopa Rinpoche The mind is the source of all suffering and the source ...
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The Power of Cherishing Others from 2021-10-23T05:27:36
Even if we feel we are only capable of doing small things to help others right now, don’t feel hopeless or depressed. Instead rejoice because even the smallest attempt to help others should fill ou...
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Making This Precious Human Rebirth Meaningful from 2021-09-24T01:47:39
Be very clever. “I should be very skillful with my life from now on. I should be very careful with my life. I must make it, without wasting the precious human body which I have received now, withou...
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Making This Precious Human Rebirth Meaningful from 2021-09-24T01:47:39
Be very clever. “I should be very skillful with my life from now on. I should be very careful with my life. I must make it, without wasting the precious human body which I have received now, ...
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Compassion and Emptiness Together from 2021-08-26T04:44:03
One must have the wisdom and method simultaneously developing. -Lama Yeshe Lama Yeshe gave a series of introductory talks in Los Angeles in 1975. In this excerpt from these talks Lama describes the...
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Karma and Purification from 2021-07-24T06:47:54
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 ...
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The Yoga of Offering Food from 2021-06-28T06:25:07
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 we...
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Lama Yeshe Rides the Radio Waves from 2021-05-20T06:37:22
We hope you enjoy listening to a radio interview with Lama Yeshe on the “What’s Cooking?” radio show with Judy O. This wide-ranging interview took place in Boulder Creek, California on July 22, 198...
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The Useful Fear of Death from 2021-04-27T01:45:09
Once we are free from delusion and karma, there is no cause for fear, so we are free from fear forever. Lama Zopa Rinpoche These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 36th Kopan Meditat...
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The Eight Benefits of Practicing Refuge from 2021-03-25T05:02:54
So this time I must receive full enlightenment, that which is free forever from samsara, for the sake of the sentient beings. Lama Zopa Rinpoche From teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche prior to ...
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A Meditation on Emptiness from 2021-02-23T06:32:46
Delusion and karma come from the mind; they don’t come from outside. The main cause is the mind, so we need to learn more about our own mind, about delusion and karma, and about the path. -Lama Zop...
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The Best Attitude for Work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on the best attitude to have during all the work we do. Excerpted from teachings on the power of compassion given in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 14, 2006 and organized ...
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28th Kopan Meditation Course: Lecture 8 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
These teachings were given at Kopan Monastery, Nepal in December 1995.
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The Emptiness of Sound from 2021-01-26T04:44:40
When we hear the sound, we will know what is the hallucination and what is the reality, what is false and what is the truth of our view of the sound. Lama Zopa Rinpoche This short excerpt is from a...
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Pervasive Compounding Suffering from 2020-12-28T06:26:35
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 fr...
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The Shortcomings of Desire from 2020-11-27T02:51:38
Desire will be there all the time, but on top of that there is more anger. So much of the problem is desire; it is really the whole world’s problem. Lama Zopa Rinpoche These teachings were given by...
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The Kindness of the Enemy from 2020-10-27T01:52:12
The minute our anger arises, we find an enemy in our life. We see a person that we hate or we want to hurt, or a person harms us and we see them as an enemy. But the minute our anger is gone, we do...
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The Path of Universal Responsibility from 2020-09-23T01:39:34
Just by lecturing that we need compassion, that alone cannot generate compassion in the hearts of the people in this world. We need to learn how to develop compassion. Compassion, like rain falling...
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The Power of Positive Attitude from 2020-08-25T06:25:37
When we protect our mind, we protect our life. Lama Zopa Rinpoche These teachings were given in June 2008 at the White Eagle Conference Center in Crestone, Colorado. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains tha...
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The Benefits of Thought Transformation from 2020-07-28T06:59:55
All the hindrances of life, all the hindrances of meditation, of practicing Dharma, by practicing Mahayana thought training, all those hindrances of meditation, of Dharma practice, all those become...
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Making Your Mind Vajrayana from 2020-06-26T00:56:56
So whatever happens, whatever is happening around, around you, your heart has peace. Lama Zopa Rinpoche In this month’s podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche leads us in the vajra practice of Chenrezig. Rinp...
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The Nature of the Mind on the Path from 2020-05-26T23:06:58
Taking refuge, now, becomes a very serious matter or serious practice, very fundamental, like the earth is used for many things, roads, houses, to grow food, crops, plants and so forth; the earth i...
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Dharma in Daily Life from 2020-04-25T20:32
When you look at people, when you relate with them, if you look at their mind and how their life is motivated, you can see how much they’re suffering and you feel unbearable. Lama Zopa Rinpoche Ple...
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Integrating What You Have Heard from 2020-02-23T21:47:28
I know you people understand something, have discovered something; but many things are only intellectual and not yet realization, therefore, I think you need something more. Lama Yeshe In the early...
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The Meaning of Guru Devotion from 2020-01-25T06:01:46
Devotion is like the mother. From the mother comes many children, then grandchildren, then all the generations. Like that, from devotion all the qualities come, the realizations and all the qualiti...
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The Power and Potential of the Mind from 2019-11-25T06:50:51
Our meeting the spiritual friend, the spiritual master, who reveals the right path, is like the stick that meets the gong. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche In this talk Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how the natur...
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The Benefits of Purification from 2019-10-24T06:50:43
There’s no other way to do this perfect work for others, so therefore one must actualize the steps of the path to enlightenment; to do that one must purify the obstacles, the negative karmas, obscu...
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The Purpose of Meditation from 2019-09-24T01:28:14
Because uncontrolled, undisciplined mind is opposite of knowledge-wisdom and happy, that nature is dissatisfaction. So your mind put such way, control, with your own wisdom, there is space, you can...
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My Life as a Tulku from 2019-08-27T06:39:46
On August 11th, 2019, Tenzin Ösel Hita participated in the ongoing series “Taste of Buddhism” offered by FPMT center Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco. Tse Chen Ling describes Ösel as “a radical free-...
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The Prajnaparamita, the Wisdom Gone Beyond from 2019-07-24T08:42:40
It is huge, it is most profound meditation, of the most important meditation, just thinking meaning of existing, or just thinking meaning of dependent arising, just that word, think meaning, medita...
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How to Purify Negative Karma from 2019-05-27T04:32:27
So now you have to understand, purified completely one negative karma. What does it mean? What does it mean? Now, it means a lot to you. Do you understand? Unbelievable. The four suffering results....
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The Source of All Happiness from 2019-04-27T02:07:14
May the good heart, altruism, source of all the happiness, may it be generated within my mind, in the mind of the family, all sentient beings; those who have this altruism, bodhicitta, thought of f...
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Why Are There So Many Different Buddhas? from 2019-03-25T07:37:33
With ignorant mind you cannot approach the omniscient mind. Like without the fuel in the car you cannot reach your destination. Even if you have the car, if you don’t have the fuel then you cannot ...
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Fulfilling Life’s Purpose from 2019-02-26T06:35:25
If we take care of others, work for their happiness, we are automatically taking care of ourselves. Trying to make others happy is the best way of loving ourselves. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Listen to th...
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Loving-kindness and Realizing the Yidam from 2019-01-23T04:14:22
Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers questions from students on how to generate loving-kindness without generating attachment and does it mean to realize the yidam. Rinpoche also describes the many joys and ...
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The Benefits of Bodhicitta from 2018-12-10T22:40:28
The benefits of bodhicitta can never be finished explaining it is said in the teachings by Buddha, like limitless sky. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these lamrim teachings on the imme...
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Seeing Oneself as Lower Than Others from 2018-10-29T05:58:38
So main thing is by practicing oneself as lower, then pride does not rise. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Listen to Day Two from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2003 commentary on Eight Verses of Thought Transformation,...
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Your Mental Bureaucracy from 2018-09-24T20:43:27
Understanding, the wisdom makes you happy. Always with you. But all the material, what you consider build up this life, is, when you need, not there. It’s there, it’s not there. Lama Yeshe explains...
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How to Find Our Real Potential from 2017-02-11T01:31:47
Tenzin Ösel Hita gives a talk on “How to overcome limitations to find our real potential” at the Center for Wisdom and Compassion in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 11, 2017. Read the talk at http:...
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Taking Care of the Mind from 2014-07-10T00:37:15
Sometimes uncontrollable anger arises and uncontrollable self-cherishing thought arises, self-concern, anger, pride also, but then sometimes it makes you aware there’s choice. There’s choice. You c...
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Meditation on Emptiness at Vulture’s Peak from 2014-03-12T05:09:27
On March 12, 2014, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche ascended Vulture’s Peak, Rajgir, India, to give a transmission of the Vajra Cutter Sutra to a group of students. Rinpoche began by reading out a Dedicat...
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You have to find your own truth from 2012-11-27T06:06:25
Tenzin Ösel Hita, the recognized reincarnation of Lama Yeshe, gave this talk during the 45th Kopan Lamrim Course at Kopan Monastery in 2012. Ösel covers many lamrim topics such as guru devotion, Dh...
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Chöd: Slaying the Ego from 2009-06-26T01:37:20
Practicing Dharma is just a question of changing, you know, your own mind, changing, from self-cherishing thought into cherishing others, from anger, those violent, harmful mind, into loving-kindne...
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Compassion Creates the Cause for Success from 2009-06-10T06:44:35
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this Dharma talk in Madrid, Spain on June 10, 2009 and explains how compassion is our best and most reliable friend and will never cheat us, that compassion is the mo...
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Compassion is the Real Answer from 2009-06-10T04:20:06
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this talk in Madrid, Spain on June 10, 2009. The teaching includes a commentary on the visualization of Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), the Buddha of Compassion, and group chan...
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The Inspiration for Kopan Courses from 2009-01-20T17:00
An excerpt from a series of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given in 2009 in Singapore. Follow along with the unedited transcript and listen to more of this teaching at lamayeshe.com/article/chapte...
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The Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from 2009-01-18T06:05:02
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this Dharma talk prior to a refuge ceremony at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore, on January 18, 2009. Rinpoche discusses the kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lam...
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Basic Philosophy of Buddhism from 2008-12-01T20:43:12
This teaching is excerpted from Lecture 10 of the 41st Kopan Course held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in December 2008. In this section of the teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the great meaning...
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Why We Need to Practice Dharma from 2008-06-27T07:09:13
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in June, 2008 at the White Eagle Conference Center in Crestone, Colorado. This podcast presents the first session in this four day teaching series. In this s...
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Hymns of Experience&Refined Gold Oral Transmission from 2008-04-05T17:00
From the lam-rim teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave at Guadalajara Mexico in April, 2008. You can follow along with the transcript and listen to the entire series of teachings at lamayeshe.com/artic...
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Golden Light Sutra: Day 2 Part 2 from 2007-11-03T17:00
Excerpted from a commentary and oral transmission by Lama Zopa Rinpoche of the Golden Light Sutra given at Maitripa Institute in Portland, Oregon on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2007. You can also r...
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Golden Light Sutra: Day 1 Part 4 from 2007-11-02T17:00
Excerpted from a commentary and oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra given at Maitripa Institute in Portland, Oregon on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2007. See http://www.lamayeshe.com/article...
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Chanting the Names of Manjushri from 2007-09-06T17:00
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this commentary and oral transmission of the Manjushri-nama-samgiti in September 2007. For a commentary on the practice see http://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chanting-names-m...
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Animal Blessing: Part One from 2007-07-28T17:00
This is a recording of an Animal Blessing given at Kurukulla Center, Boston, MA in July 2007. For the 2nd part of this recording go to http://www.lamayeshe.com/article/teachings-boston-audio.
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Introduction to Sanghata Sutra Oral Transmission from 2007-02-28T17:00
From the introductory teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave during a Sanghata Sutra commentary and oral transmission given in Taiwan in 2007; listen to the entire teachings Listen
What is Dharma from 2007-02-25T17:00
An excerpt from teachings before a Mitrugpa Initiation given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taiwan 2007. Follow along with the unedited transcript and listen to more of this teaching at http://www.lamaye...
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The Nature of Samsara from 2006-12-26T05:48:51
These teachings were given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India, December 26-31, 2006. The selection begins with a question and answer between Rinpoche and students on the natu...
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Service to the Guru and the FPMT from 2006-06-21T17:00
This talk was given during a Long Life Puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche in June 2006. Follow along with the unedited transcript at http://www.lamayeshe.com/article/how-fpmt-and-centers-benefit-ot...
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The Importance of Dharma Centers from 2006-06-08T17:00
This is a talk Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave at the opening of the new Vajrayana Institute in Sydney Australia in 2006, in which he talks extensively on the benefits of dharma centers.
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The Qualities of the Bodhisattva Bhumis from 2006-06-03T17:00
This talk was given at Tara Institute, Australia in 2006. Listen to the rest of the series and follow along with the unedited transcript at http://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/qualities-bhumis.
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Emptiness and Lama Atisha from 2006-06-02T19:00
A talk by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given during teachings entitled “Why We Need a Spiritual Path” at Tara Institute in Australia, 2006. Follow along with the unedited transcript and listen to...
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How to Maintain a Harmonious Workplace from 2006-05-15T00:01:28
A short teaching from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on how we can maintain a harmonious workplace. Excerpted from teachings on the power of compassion given in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 14, 2006 and organ...
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