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 you have received all the sutra and tantra teachings and have heard them many times, when you follow the ego nothing happens in your mind. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the many shortcomings of following the self-cherishing mind, and encourages us to abandon it without delay. These teachings were given at at the Thirty-third Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2000. Read along with the transcript on our website .

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The Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing is an episode from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

This episode is 37:07 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2025.

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