A Meaningful Life: Practicing Contentment and Bringing Happiness (Video)
In this video, Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us to practice contentment and to bring happiness to others instead of harming them.
Teachings
Giving Up the Eight Worldly Concerns
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how freedom from the eight worldly concerns creates real peace, in this teaching excerpt from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course.
Desire and Attachment
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
A Vacation from Attachment
Attachment and Ordination
Attachment to a Good Reputation
Clinging to Worldly Pleasure
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How to Practice Dharma
Excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas. In this book, Rinpoche explains how desire and attachment are the cause of our problems and how to abandon these negative minds in order to find perfect peace and happiness.
Chapters:
How to Practice Dharma
Publisher's Acknowledgements and Reader Feedback
How to Practice Dharma: Editor's Preface
The Dissatisfied Mind of Desire
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Practicing Patience with the Enemy
How to practice patience and avoid the eight worldly dharmas.