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On this page you find essential parts of teachings on Mind Training by Lama Zopa Rinpoche extracted into separate videos. You can find a link to a complete list of all these extracts here.
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On this page you find essential parts of teachings on Bodhichitta by Lama Zopa Rinpoche extracted into separate videos. You can find a link to a complete list of all these extracts here.
While teaching in Madrid, Spain, in October 2018, Rinpoche summarized the whole path to enlightenment, emphasizing the importance of the guru. The path also includes developing renunciation, bodhichitta, and an understanding of gross and subtle emptiness, and eventually practicing tantra.…
During the 2018 November Course at Kopan Monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche outlined how to reach enlightenment based on the lamrim and the importance of studying it. Rinpoche emphasized that merely knowing the lamrim is not enough; it needs to be…
During teachings in Switzerland in 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on the importance of generating patience and creating happiness for others, captured in this excerpt and video clip: Even if you don’t believe in reincarnation and karma, even those who…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught on how everything we receive, even the motivation of bodhichitta, comes through the kindness of other sentient beings during teachings given at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in September 2018. Lama Zopa Rinpoche explained why and…
During the 2018 retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice on how to prepare for retreat, captured in this excerpt and video clip: … I escaped [Tibet] through Bhutan to Buxa [Duar in India]. For eight years I lived…
During the 2018 retreat at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche taught extensively on guru devotion. In the following, Rinpoche shares examples of quotes on guru devotion and concludes the half-hour video clip with a…
During the 2018 retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche was asked, “What is the best way to develop bodhichitta?” You can read Rinpoche’s response in this excerpt from the teaching and in the following video clip. Many people think there…
During the 2018 retreat in Australia, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave advice on the main activities to actualize the lamrim. Here is a small excerpt from this teaching: Lama Tsongkhapa asked Manjushri, “What is the quick way to actualize the lamrim…
During a teaching given at the 2017 100 Million Mani Retreat held at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we incorrectly see things. In the text it says that rabrib, or defective view, is like when…
In August 2016, during the Light of the Path retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advised students to check carefully when meditating on emptiness. When many people meditate on emptiness they say that nothing exists. Do you understand? Nothing exists. [When you…