Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

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’s the method, that’s the prac

The 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 delusions. -Lama Zopa Rinpoch

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 Zopa Rinpoche encourages us to ta

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 of them all is the practice of

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, then another teaching says you m

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 actualize the path immediately in their m

Practicing Compassion

Compassion makes everything sweet, rich, meaningful, worthwhile, and the cause of enlightenment. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche This month on the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive podcast

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 completely due to the kindnes

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 Lama Zopa Rinpoche leads a re

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 Zopa Rinpoche considers how Western

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 piles up like mountains and we

The Best Use of Your Life

Ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara, enlightenment, everything, all this happiness – the creator is your mind, not somebody outside. This gives you incredible fre

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, “Once a situation has manifeste

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 bottom of your heart. -Lama Zopa

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 transforming these into the Dharmakaya

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 for the absolute wisdom, the e

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 the ultimate peace.  -Lama Zopa Rinpo

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 Rinpoche This month on the Lama Ye

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 to you that way – not merely

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