Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

If you have compassion, you are always creating the cause of success so that later in this life, or in future lives and for thousands of lifetimes, all your wishes will come true without any effort.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we will attain every success when we constantly practice the mind of compassion. Rinpoche gave this talk in Madrid, Spain on June 10, 2009. Listen along with the transcript on our website at https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/compassion-creates-cause-success

Watching your internal world is more interesting than watching a movie. Every minute, there’s something new as your mind is constantly moving. It’s a remarkable experience!

-Lama Yeshe

Lama Yeshe explains why and how to release our ego. These teachings were given during a five-day retreat Lama led near Melbourne, Australia, in March 1975, dedicated to the awakening of inner freedom and published by LYWA in Ego, Attachment and Liberation. You can also read along with the transcript on our website.

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 practice, that’s the solution.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reminds us that being born into this precious human body affords us incredible opportunities to practice the Dharma and how we should feel incredible, unbelievable joy and bliss as if we had won the lottery. These teachings were given at Root Institute, Bodhgaya, in December 2003. Read along with the transcript on our website.

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 Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offers vast and profound retreat advice to participants present during the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat in Taiwan in 2001. You can read along with the transcript on the LYWA website.

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 take advantage of the power of our human rebirth. Rinpoche gave these teachings during a commentary on Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, an essential mind training text composed by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa, given at Tse Chen Ling Center, in San Francisco, California, USA, in November 2003. You can read along with the transcript on our website.