Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

As long as the mind is unsubdued, there is always outside harm. Once the mind is subdued, once there is no anger…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss,…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche