Episodes

  • The Loving Compassionate Precious Thought for Enlightenment

    The Loving Compassionate Precious Thought for Enlightenment
    Apr 28 2024
    Even giving just one single tiny grain of rice to one single sentient being will accumulate infinite merit when you are motivated to give by the precious wish to attain enlightenment to benefit numberless sentient beings. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the power and importance of the precious bodhicitta during teachings on Geshe … Continue reading The Loving Compassionate Precious Thought for Enlightenment →
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    39 mins
  • How We Name the World

    How We Name the World
    Mar 28 2024
    Every single phenomena is like that. There’s merely gathered, the base to be labeled, then due to that, then mere imputation, then only after that, then you have that appearance. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche In these teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche given during a lamrim retreat held at Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek, California, from August … Continue reading How We Name the World →
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    33 mins
  • The Living Heart of Compassion

    The Living Heart of Compassion
    Feb 22 2024
    Compassion should be at the heart of our life, at the center of all our relationships and in all our practices. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives the transmission of the mantra and dharani of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion and explains why reciting these mantra helps us to develop compassion from the … Continue reading The Living Heart of Compassion →
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    18 mins
  • The Power of the Object of Merit

    The Power of the Object of Merit
    Jan 29 2024
    If you don’t practice Dharma, don’t learn Dharma, don’t meditate, if you don’t pray to have realization of the path to enlightenment, at least even the path to liberation, if you don’t do that then so many sentient beings have to suffer for you to live, for your happiness, it is so unimaginable, unbearable, so … Continue reading The Power of the Object of Merit →
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    33 mins
  • Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri

    Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri
    Oct 24 2023
    Manjushri bodhisattva is the highest manifestation of being, the embodiment of all knowledge. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche The Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti (Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri) consists of 160 verses and mantra sentences, condensing an enormous tantric lore. Listen to Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti in Tibetan. Rinpoche recorded this recitation in 2006, and asked for the … Continue reading Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri →
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    19 mins
  • My Life as a Tulku

    My Life as a Tulku
    Aug 11 2019
    On August 11th, 2019, Tenzin Ösel Hita participated in the ongoing series “Taste of Buddhism” offered by FPMT center Tse Chen Ling in San Francisco. Tse Chen Ling describes Ösel as “a radical free-thinker, former monk, filmmaker, and musician who is highly gifted at sharing the essence of the Dharma and how it can be … Continue reading My Life as a Tulku →
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • How to Find Our Real Potential

    How to Find Our Real Potential
    Feb 11 2017
    Tenzin Ösel Hita gives a talk on “How to overcome limitations to find our real potential” at the Center for Wisdom and Compassion in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 11, 2017. Read the talk at http://www.lamayeshe.com/article/how-find-our-real-potential Learn more about Ösel at http://www.lamayeshe.com/teacher/tenzin-osel-hita
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Taking Care of the Mind

    Taking Care of the Mind
    Jul 10 2014
    Sometimes uncontrollable anger arises and uncontrollable self-cherishing thought arises, self-concern, anger, pride also, but then sometimes it makes you aware there’s choice. There’s choice. You can choose. Listen to a public talk by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on how to bring peace and happiness to oneself and others, given at Conway Hall, London, England on July … Continue reading Taking Care of the Mind →
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    1 hr and 33 mins