Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the suffering of the lower realms of samsara (cyclic existence) in this teaching excerpted from the Fourth Kopan Meditation Course in 1973.

Explaining how by overcoming attachment to ordinary pleasure, we open the way to the joy of inner liberation.

A teaching on renunciation, first published in Teachings at Tushita

This teaching on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought is an excerpt from the 33rd Kopan Course.

Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings real happiness and peace of mind

Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the nature of samsara in this excerpt from a teaching at the 25th Kopan Course.

We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara.