Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

11/15/2025

The key to happiness is the mind. With the mind, we can switch our life to suffering or we can switch it to happiness, just as we change television channels, choosing to watch programs about fighting and war, or peaceful things, like the nature programs people seem to enjoy. Experiencing happiness or suffering depends entirely on what we do with our mind.

- Lama Zopa Rinpoche

from *Sun of Devotion Stream of Blessings* a LYWA free book
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11/14/2025

Ven. Sangye Khadro remembers the deep kindness and big heart of Lama Yeshe, who cared lovingly and attentively for all his students.

From Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa's *Remembering Lama Yeshe - 90th Anniversary Series* 💓💯

11/14/2025

First sit cross-legged, in the lotus or half-lotus position if you can, or just comfortably. Make sure your mind is here with your body. It’s no good if your body is here but your mind’s at home. You can’t take a meditation course with your body alone. Meditation is done by the mind. Therefore, your mind should be with you in the present, not obsessed with another time, place, person or some other object. The method we use to bring attention totally to the here and now is concentration on the breath— focusing on how your breath moves through your nervous system.

- Lama Yeshe

from *Ego, Attachment and Liberation* a LYWA free book
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11/13/2025

Look at how things appear to you. They appear as real, as existing from their own side. The most important point is to then think that this is a hallucination, a projection. A camera records various activities, such as fighting, and if you have power and a projector you can then project the film onto a screen. But what you see there on the screen is not real. You might see thousands of people fighting on a TV screen but there’s nobody really there on the screen. What appears is not real; it’s not true. Exactly like a camera recording images on a film, ignorance leaves imprints on our mental continuum and we then project true existence onto the things we experience.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

in *How Things Exist* a LYWA free book
www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/how-things-exist

11/12/2025

Bodhicitta is like this. 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. Because of the situation you're in, start by becoming the object of your own compassion. It begins from there: "This situation I'm in, I'm not the only one with ego conflict and problems. In all the world's societies, some people are upper class, some middle and others low; some are extremely beautiful, some are medium and others are ugly. But, just like me, everybody seeks happiness and does not desire to be miserable."

In this way, a feeling of equilibrium begins to come. Somehow, deep within you, equilibrium towards enemies, strangers and friends arises—it is not merely intellectual but something really sincere. It comes from deep down; from the bottom of your heart.

- Lama Yeshe

from *The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism*
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11/11/2025

On this special Buddha Day of Lhabab Duchen, we’re very happy to share with you our LYWA Strategic Plan 2025: "The Enduring Wisdom of Our Lamas," and to launch our year-end campaign—an invitation to join us in carrying this work forward. https://conta.cc/4p9ihKq

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11/11/2025

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11/11/2025

Sometimes Westerners take too many commitments and don’t know how to do them. In other words, they are lost again, lost in spiritual materialism. You don’t know what to do. Chenrezig and Tara and all these deities and you don’t know what on earth it means and you don’t understand anymore. Instead of becoming helpful for you, Dharma becomes your enemy. Dharma becomes cause for neurosis and guilt. I think that is useless.

In each sadhana you’ll find a refuge prayer, maybe three times, five or six bodhicitta prayers and some kind of Vajrasattva practice. One good bodhicitta meditation is enough. Put your emphasis on one thing and go quickly over the others. Do this rather than allowing your practice to become a disaster.

Atisha once said, “Tibetan people devote themselves to a hundred deities and don’t attain one, whereas Indian people devote themselves to one deity and attain a hundred.” I think Atisha is reasonable and correct. The Indian custom is much better than the Tibetan. That’s garbage. Do one thing perfectly and attain everything.

Tara is a perfect example. If you practice every day and do retreat for months, years—maybe you do only Tara retreat for fifty years—then in fifty years, by attaining the realization of Tara, you can do anything. But right now, you are ambitious for other things because you don’t have anything. And the same thing happens with the Dharma. Let’s say that somebody is giving a really high teaching. “Wow! I want to take this one—this one is really powerful!” If you say this, you are really on a power trip. You want power. If you are not realistic, then this practice is useless. I’m sorry; I have no room for this. Such a student will never have any satisfaction no matter how many teachings he receives, because he won’t have any practical sadhana within himself.

Lama Yeshe gave this teaching at Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1979. Learn more at www.lamayeshe.com/article/chapter/big-love-teaching-excerpts 💓 Image of Lama Yeshe teaching at the 12th Meditation Course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1979. Murray Wright (photographer)

11/10/2025

Rangjung Neljorma Khandro Tseringma Rinpoche implores Lama Zopa Rinpoche to swiftly return. Shantideva Center, NYC, 2023.

11/08/2025

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