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Make Your Mind An Ocean
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Make Your Mind An Ocean
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First, you have to understand your own ego problems—craving, desire, anger, impatience; your own situation, your inability to cope, your own disasters—within yourself and feel compassion for yourself. www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/essence-tibetan-buddhism
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
First, you have to understand your own ego problems—craving, desire, anger, impatience; your own situation, your inability to cope, your own disasters—within yourself and feel compassion for yourself. www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/essence-tibetan-buddhism
"Lama Zopa Rinpoche inquired about the killing of turkeys for Thanksgiving and was told that they are all killed in advance, since all the supermarkets are packed with frozen birds, all piled up like a mountain." Here's advice about what you can do ⤵️
www.lamayeshe.com/advice/thanksgiving
www.lamayeshe.com/advice/thanksgiving
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Lama Zopa Rinpoche inquired about the killing of turkeys for Thanksgiving and was told that they are all killed in advance, since all the supermarkets are packed with frozen birds, all piled up like a mountain." Here's advice about what you can do ⤵️
www.lamayeshe.com/advice/thanksgiving
www.lamayeshe.com/advice/thanksgiving
Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful way to control the delusions.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful way to control the delusions.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#happyhalloween #dayofthedead
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tilopa (988–1069)
Indian mahasiddha and guru of Naropa; source of many lineages of tantric teachings. LamaYeshe.com/glossary
Indian mahasiddha and guru of Naropa; source of many lineages of tantric teachings. LamaYeshe.com/glossary
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Tilopa (988–1069)
Indian mahasiddha and guru of Naropa; source of many lineages of tantric teachings. LamaYeshe.com/glossary
Indian mahasiddha and guru of Naropa; source of many lineages of tantric teachings. LamaYeshe.com/glossary
A very early photo of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche holding puppies on the steps outside the original kitchen of the Old House on the property that later became Kopan Monastery. You can see many more archival photos at www.lamayeshe.com/gallery
September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A very early photo of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche holding puppies on the steps outside the original kitchen of the Old House on the property that later became Kopan Monastery. You can see many more archival photos at www.lamayeshe.com/gallery
Our self-cherishing thought is the root of all human problems. It makes our lives difficult and miserable. Bodhicitta substitutes others for self. It creates space in your mind.
- Lama Yeshe
- Lama Yeshe
September 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our self-cherishing thought is the root of all human problems. It makes our lives difficult and miserable. Bodhicitta substitutes others for self. It creates space in your mind.
- Lama Yeshe
- Lama Yeshe
By living in an awareness of the present moment, it brings a kind of total relaxation.
-Lama Yeshe
-Lama Yeshe
August 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
By living in an awareness of the present moment, it brings a kind of total relaxation.
-Lama Yeshe
-Lama Yeshe
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July 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Living one’s life under the control of ignorance is actually the heaviest prison—and everyone is living in it.
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
bit.ly/Enjoy-Life-Liberated-From-The-Inner-Prison
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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July 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Living one’s life under the control of ignorance is actually the heaviest prison—and everyone is living in it.
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
bit.ly/Enjoy-Life-Liberated-From-The-Inner-Prison
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
bit.ly/Enjoy-Life-Liberated-From-The-Inner-Prison
Meditation is OK. But even if you are unable to meditate it’s all right. My meditation is that as much as possible I try to be aware of my own actions.
- Lama Yeshe
- Lama Yeshe
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Meditation is OK. But even if you are unable to meditate it’s all right. My meditation is that as much as possible I try to be aware of my own actions.
- Lama Yeshe
- Lama Yeshe
Happy Mother's Day
May 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy Mother's Day
Contentment isn’t about pretending everything is perfect or ignoring problems when they arise. Instead, it involves recognizing difficulty without letting it consume us – even amidst uncertainty or turmoil ⤵️ compassionandwisdom.org/the-lost-art...
May 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Contentment isn’t about pretending everything is perfect or ignoring problems when they arise. Instead, it involves recognizing difficulty without letting it consume us – even amidst uncertainty or turmoil ⤵️ compassionandwisdom.org/the-lost-art...
Here when we think of him, we can’t stand this situation, we can’t bear it. Compassion has to arise, our mind has no choice. Compassion has to arise for him, we have no choice, you can’t bear it.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
April 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Here when we think of him, we can’t stand this situation, we can’t bear it. Compassion has to arise, our mind has no choice. Compassion has to arise for him, we have no choice, you can’t bear it.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
To actualize Dharma you have to start from where you are and base any practice that you do on that foundation.
-Lama Yeshe👌
bit.ly/Peaceful-Stillness-Silent-Mind
-Lama Yeshe👌
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April 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
To actualize Dharma you have to start from where you are and base any practice that you do on that foundation.
-Lama Yeshe👌
bit.ly/Peaceful-Stillness-Silent-Mind
-Lama Yeshe👌
bit.ly/Peaceful-Stillness-Silent-Mind
To meditate on the impermanence of this life, it’s useful to think like this: When you look at a river, think that just as the river flows, life finishes just as quickly. As the sun rises and sets, think that life passes just as quickly.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#PopeFrancis
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#PopeFrancis
April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
To meditate on the impermanence of this life, it’s useful to think like this: When you look at a river, think that just as the river flows, life finishes just as quickly. As the sun rises and sets, think that life passes just as quickly.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#PopeFrancis
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
#PopeFrancis
Let your obsessed sense perception rest and allow your silent mind to surface. Then ask your question & the answer will appear.
-Lama Yeshe
-Lama Yeshe
April 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Let your obsessed sense perception rest and allow your silent mind to surface. Then ask your question & the answer will appear.
-Lama Yeshe
-Lama Yeshe
OM A RA PA TSA NA DHI dhi dhi dhi dhi dhi dhi.......
(dhi = 🧡 wisdom)
youthful Manjushri's mantra chanted by Lama Zopa
(dhi = 🧡 wisdom)
youthful Manjushri's mantra chanted by Lama Zopa
April 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
OM A RA PA TSA NA DHI dhi dhi dhi dhi dhi dhi.......
(dhi = 🧡 wisdom)
youthful Manjushri's mantra chanted by Lama Zopa
(dhi = 🧡 wisdom)
youthful Manjushri's mantra chanted by Lama Zopa
