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Lama Zopa Rinpoche full length teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche full length teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

This podcast brings to you the latest teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in full length. At this point we focus on the Teachings on Though Transformation that Rinpoche started giving in Kopan when COVID hit in early 2020. We are starting with the teaching from 20 July, 2021. New episodes will be published as Rinpoche gives a new teaching.

Categories: Education

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Our current bodies carry the seeds of disturbing thoughts and defilements, and they perpetuate samsara. The continuity of these aggregates, including consciousness, never breaks, constantly circling from one life to the next. The general suffering of samsara includes the impermanence of everything, the unsatisfactory nature of desires, and the inevitability of leaving our bodies behind.

Sentient beings have never experienced even a moment of true happiness in samsara because even samsaric pleasures are suffering. The overwhelming suffering experienced in samsara is due to misconceptions about the self and the attachment to impermanent and contaminated phenomena. These misconceptions perpetuate suffering in the realms of samsara, stretching back into beginningless time.

We urgently need to break free from these wrong concepts, as they lead to endless suffering. The opportunity to have a human body with the potential for spiritual practice arises from the kindness of sentient beings. Every single sentient being has contributed to this opportunity through their kindness. Achieving liberation, enlightenment, and all levels of happiness depends entirely on the kindness and existence of sentient beings.

We need to cherish and work for sentient beings, pledging to free them from suffering and bring them to enlightenment. The root of happiness and spiritual growth lies in cherishing others, and this cherishing originates from great compassion, generated in response to the suffering of sentient beings.

By taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts with bodhichitta motivation, the merit accumulated multiplies exponentially, potentially by millions of times. Living in accordance with each precept leads to the accumulation of limitless skies of merit. Each precept serves as an opportunity to collect merit for the benefit of all sentient beings.

By abstaining from even one negative karma, such as killing, we can experience the happiness for hundreds or even thousands of lifetimes. Conversely, if we engage in negative actions without purifying them, the suffering that results from those actions can continue endlessly. By rejoicing in our virtuous actions and merit accumulation, we can enhance the power and effectiveness of our spiritual practice.

Correctly meditating on method and wisdom is crucial and Lama Zopa Rinpoche provides a detailed commentary on the Chenrezig Sadhana, explaining visualization, mantra recitation, compassion, and purification.

This teaching was given at Institut Vajra Yogini, France as part of a Four Kadampa Deities Retreat from April 18 to May 11, 2003. You can see all the teachings from this retreat here:

https://fpmt.org/media/streaming/teachings-of-lama-zopa-rinpoche/4-kadam-deities-2003/