Episodes

  • The Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing

    The Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing
    Jan 27 2025
    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 … Continue reading The Shortcomings of Self-Cherishing →
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    37 mins
  • Everything Comes From The Mind

    Everything Comes From The Mind
    Dec 19 2024
    Through this way of meditating, you begin to realize it’s not the object that is disturbing. It’s your mind; it’s your concept. Your mind is making you unhappy; your mind is disturbing you. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how everything we experience comes from the mind. These teachings were given during the Thirty-third … Continue reading Everything Comes From The Mind →
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    17 mins
  • Listening Like the Limitless Sky

    Listening Like the Limitless Sky
    Nov 25 2024
    Even if you find it very hard to understand the teachings on emptiness, you will leave positive imprints on the mind and remove the imprints of delusion. The benefits you receive just by listening is like the limitless sky. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche elaborates on the emptiness of the I, then gives oral … Continue reading Listening Like the Limitless Sky →
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    43 mins
  • Using Everything to Practice Mindfulness

    Using Everything to Practice Mindfulness
    Oct 28 2024
    Because you look at everything as empty, the strong selfish mind, the ego, doesn’t arise. When you think like this, it makes your life stable, filled with peace, happiness, contentment; it brings so much benefit. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to practice mindfulness as we go through our day, and offers advice … Continue reading Using Everything to Practice Mindfulness →
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    24 mins
  • Relying on the Buddha

    Relying on the Buddha
    Sep 24 2024
    Because we rely on the methods revealed by Buddha – the path to liberation and enlightenment – we naturally take refuge in the Buddha. – Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains why we take refuge in the Buddha. Rinpoche then chants a prayer asking for blessings of the lineage lamas, followed by recitation of The … Continue reading Relying on the Buddha →
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    20 mins
  • Change Your Attitude, Change Your Action

    Change Your Attitude, Change Your Action
    Aug 27 2024
    The ego, this self-cherishing thought, the ego is much more harmful than all the atomic bombs that are in the world because atomic bomb even if it explodes, if you have bodhichitta it doesn’t cause you to be reborn in the hell realm, lower realm. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how Shakyamuni Buddha … Continue reading Change Your Attitude, Change Your Action →
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    15 mins
  • Proof of Reincarnation by Habituation

    Proof of Reincarnation by Habituation
    Jul 28 2024
    By training the mind in patience, it leaves a positive imprint on your mind. Then later you find it easier for the mind to be patient and more and more difficult for the mind to get angry. It’s the same with self-cherishing or bodhicitta. Whichever way one trains the mind, one can become more easily … Continue reading Proof of Reincarnation by Habituation →
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    55 mins
  • Where to Find Happiness

    Where to Find Happiness
    Jun 26 2024
    Happiness comes from a positive attitude and action motivated by that. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers a student’s question about the relationship between the mind and the heart when practicing bodhichitta, how to be authentic in the practice of compassion, and where to locate … Continue reading Where to Find Happiness →
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    35 mins