Like Winning the Lottery
How do you liberate yourself and others from constant suffering? You use this precious human body to cherish others more than yourself. That...
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Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Listen to teachings from great Tibetan Buddhist masters Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Visit our website ( to read teachings from many of the greatest teachers of our time and to...
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20 of 55 episodesThe Mind of Retreat
Your mind should be doing retreat in emptiness, retreating away from ignorance, the hallucinated mind, the worldly dharmas, the king of the...
Help Yourself and Liberate the World
It’s unbelievable what you can accomplish with this incredible human body. There is no greater joy than this. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama...
The Importance of Compassion
There are many different kinds of Dharma practice— hundreds of different mantras to recite, all kinds of meditation—but the most important o...
Why Are There Different Instructions?
When you read different teachings, you might get confused because they look contradictory. One teaching says you must never do something, th...
Calling the Guru From Afar
As you listen to the oral transmission think, “May I be able to reveal each word to every sentient being and may they be able to actua...
Practicing Compassion
Compassion makes everything sweet, rich, meaningful, worthwhile, and the cause of enlightenment. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama...
The Enemy is the Kindest Person
How can I practice patience if no one gets angry with me? How will I find the opportunity to develop my mind in patience? The opportunity is...
Karma in Everyday Life
It is extremely important to reflect, to meditate, to think deeply about karma so that it does not become just a word. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche L...
Ignore Karma at Your Own Peril
When the subject of karma is missing, there’s no understanding that harming others means harming oneself. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zop...
Just Do It
We have this negative karma collected on our mental continuum, and we have to do something to clean it, to purify it. If we do nothing, it p...
The Best Use of Your Life
Ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara, enlightenment, everything, all this happiness – the creator is your mind, not somebody ou...
How to Deal with Difficult Situations
The minute you accept your own karma, you cut the problem. You have to accept your own karma. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche As Lama Yeshe once said, &...
The Problem Is Coming From Inside Your Mind
Somebody who helps you to destroy your ego is so precious and shows you unbelievable kindness. This kindness you should feel deeply from bot...
The Meaning of Blessing
The meaning of blessings is transforming one’s own mind into the whole path to enlightenment of method and wisdom with the goal of transform...
The Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM
All existence are condensed into two truths. MANI signifies the truth for all-obscuring mind, the dependent arising, and PADME is the truth...
To Achieve the Ultimate Peace
From our side, from us sentient beings, from our side, if we practice correctly, definitely, without doubt, definitely we’ll achieve t...
Covering The Whole Earth
Once your inner enemy of delusion is destroyed, it is the same as if all outside enemies have been destroyed in one instant. -Lama Zopa Rinp...
How Things Appear to Exist from their Own Side
The way the ‘I’ and phenomena appear to us, to our hallucinated mind, is they are not merely labeled by mind. As long as these things appear...
The Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing
When you follow the ego, you become a disciple of the ego. You follow the ego day and night and listen what ego says all the time. Even if y...