Episodes

  • Ignore Karma at Your Own Peril

    Ignore Karma at Your Own Peril
    Nov 24 2025
    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 psychology lacks an understanding of karma and discusses how it is not enough for a patient to attain superficial happiness if the deeper cause of suffering remains untreated. These teachings … Continue reading Ignore Karma at Your Own Peril →
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    22 mins
  • Just Do It

    Just Do It
    Oct 26 2025
    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 will experience life’s problems again and again, again and again, because the negative karma is still there. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa … Continue reading Just Do It →
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    23 mins
  • The Best Use of Your Life

    The Best Use of Your Life
    Sep 25 2025
    Ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara, enlightenment, everything, all this happiness – the creator is your mind, not somebody outside. This gives you incredible freedom. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages us to make the best use of our lives by realizing how the mind is the creator of all our happiness and suffering. Through … Continue reading The Best Use of Your Life →
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    19 mins
  • How to Deal with Difficult Situations

    How to Deal with Difficult Situations
    Aug 26 2025
    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 manifested, the best thing to do is to accept the fact and deal with it.” Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how we can use such challenging … Continue reading How to Deal with Difficult Situations →
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    26 mins
  • The Problem Is Coming From Inside Your Mind

    The Problem Is Coming From Inside Your Mind
    Jul 28 2025
    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 Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche illustrates the way that all suffering and happiness is created by the mind. Rinpoche then shares a story of how as a … Continue reading The Problem Is Coming From Inside Your Mind →
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    16 mins
  • The Meaning of Blessing

    The Meaning of Blessing
    Jun 25 2025
    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 and the Rupakaya. So the meaning of blessing contains all this. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains what it means to receive the blessings of the … Continue reading The Meaning of Blessing →
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    20 mins
  • The Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM

    The Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM
    May 26 2025
    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 emptiness. Then HUM is the unification of dependent arising and emptiness. -Lama Zopa Rinpoche In this month’s podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the meaning of the mantra, OM … Continue reading The Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM →
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    36 mins
  • To Achieve the Ultimate Peace

    To Achieve the Ultimate Peace
    Apr 26 2025
    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 Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to practice in order to achieve the ultimate peace for ourselves and all sentient beings. These teachings were given by Rinpoche in Singapore in … Continue reading To Achieve the Ultimate Peace →
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    30 mins