Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

06/13/2026

Is it time to consider including LYWA as part of your planned giving future? We can help you plant seeds to grow the Dharma legacy of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche 🌱🌷

Email from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Planting Seeds for Future Growth View as Webpage Special Mailing: Legacy Giving LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE The Archive of the FPMT Lama Yeshe gardening at Manjushri

06/12/2026

𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.

“There is an element of naturalness in turning to that which knows, the recognition of which can help us beware of the pitfalls of either trying to strain forward or else giving up in frustration.

The process of practice undertaken here is indeed a natural unfolding, like the blossoming of a beautiful flower.

The buds first need time to grow; they will not blossom right away. Space and consciousness are already there; there is no need to construct or fabricate them.

The habit patterns of relating to things in ways contrary to their empty nature are deeply ingrained, even though on closer inspection they turn out to be unrealistic and detrimental.

There is a need to allow time to change these habit patterns gradually. They cannot be stopped overnight simply by dint of force.

Because they are built through repetitions, they can only be undone through repetition, that is, through repeated abiding in emptiness.”

—Ven. Anālayo in Abiding in Emptiness

06/11/2026

Seeing this, we worldly beings become the objects of the meditator’s compassion.

by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

06/10/2026

In meditation it is easier to have a calm mind; outside of meditation is when the real test comes.

06/10/2026

It’s good to understand the nature of anger. It’s a very strong emotion; it’s like a nail. If you stick a nail into yourself, you automatically feel pain. Craving desire is not like a nail. It creeps up on you slowly. Anger is wrathful, so you can see it easily. You can’t see desire; it’s sneaky, very difficult to recognize. Anger is easy to recognize, firstly because it’s painful but also because it’s stronger than attachment. Its function is to destroy; it’s like atomic energy. Atomic energy is automatically destructive. Anger is like that—it automatically destroys.

-Lama Yeshe

From *The First Clear Step* www.lamayeshe.com/article/first-clear-step that Lama gave in 1974 at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. ✴ Image of Lama Yeshe teaching in 1974 in the gompa at Kopan Monastery. Photo: Ursula Bernis.

06/10/2026

In the land encircled by snow mountains
You are the source of all happiness and good;
All-powerful Chenrezig, Tenzin Gyatso,
Please remain until samsara ends!

࿑ ༧གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་ཅིང་གཟིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་༧མཆོག་ཞབས་པུས་གཤག་བཅོས་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བར་དགའ་གུས་ཡིད་ཀྱི་འཚམས་འདྲི་གྲངས་མེད་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་དང་། མགོན་པོ་གང་ཉིད་བདག་སོགས་བསྟན་འགྲོའི་མགོན་དཔུང་དམ་པར་སྐུ་ཚེ་མི་གཤིགས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཁམས་སུ་བརྟན་ཅིང་། རིང་མིན་ཁ་བ་གངས་ཅན་གྱི་ལྗོངས་སུ་ཞབས་ཟུང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཀྱི་རེ་ཁ་མངོན་པར་འཁོད་དེ་གཞིས་བྱེས་མཉམ་འཛོམས་ཀྱི་སྐལ་བཟང་གི་དགའ་སྟོན་མྱུར་དུ་འཆར་བའི་སྨོན་འདུན་དང་བཅས། ཕྱི་ལོ། ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་བ། ༦ ཚེས། ༨ ཉིན་ཡོངས་འཛིན་ཁྲི་ཆེན་གླིང་སྤྲུལ་མིང་པས། །

With immense joy and gratitude, His Eminence Ling Rinpoche is pleased to share the wonderful news that the knee surgery of our most precious and beloved Guru, His Holiness the Great Dalai Lama, has been successfully completed.

We offer our deepest prayers for His Holiness’s swift and complete recovery, unwavering health, and long life. May His Holiness continue to illuminate the world with his wisdom, compassion, and teachings, bringing peace and benefit to countless beings.

May all the noble aspirations of His Holiness be effortlessly fulfilled, and may the day soon come when he joyfully returns to Tibet.

06/10/2026

bit.ly/Meditation-On-Maitreya

06/08/2026

🏳️

06/07/2026

🪞

🎬 Looking for a meaningful movie night?

The FPMT North America Film Library is filled with inspiring documentaries, teachings, and films that bring the Dharma to life through powerful storytelling.

One featured title is The Buddha's Revolution: An FPMT Documentary. This film tells the remarkable story of how Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche introduced the Buddha's teachings to the modern world, creating a global network of centers, projects, and practitioners dedicated to compassion, wisdom, and service.

Whether you're curious about Buddhism, interested in FPMT's history, or simply looking for inspiration, this film is a wonderful place to begin.

🍿 Explore the Film Library and discover your next watch at fpmtna.org/film-library

Have you seen The Buddha's Revolution? Let us know what inspired you most.