Weekly Community Prayers
Every Thursday, 9:30 AM to 10 AM (MST)
Join us each week on Zoom! Beautifully guided by Ven. Angie Muir.
Please feel free to leave your camera off and just listen. Just hearing the prayers brings great benefit, and your presence offers support and benefit to the whole group!
Join us each week on Zoom! Beautifully guided by Ven. Angie Muir.
Please feel free to leave your camera off and just listen. Just hearing the prayers brings great benefit, and your presence offers support and benefit to the whole group!
Buddhist Mind Science - Coming Winter 2026
The course is intended to address the needs of modern students, with a fact-based approach to the study of the mind and meditation.
Course Overview
The course is presented over seven modules, with a strong experiential component:
Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Course Overview
The course is presented over seven modules, with a strong experiential component:
- Cultivating lasting happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it is an exploration of purpose in life and what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what to happiness, for oneself and others. It also explores the value of warmheartedness and wisdom, and it lays out the general foundation for the following modules.
- Transforming the mind to cultivate lasting happiness focuses on meditation, mental balance, and emotions.
- Getting to know your mind focuses on the mind.
- Fundamental trainings to cultivate lasting happiness presents the foundations of the Buddhist paths.
- Wise paths to the heart focuses on warmheartedness.
- The nature of perception focuses on wisdom.
- Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom explores how to bring the values of warmheartedness and wisdom into the world.
Happiness and suffering are dependent upon your mind, upon your interpretation. They do not come from outside, from others. All of your happiness and all of your suffering are created by you, by your own mind.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Helps Us Find our Next Meeting Space!
Lama Yeshe House is looking for a space to meet in the Denver - Boulder Area. We would like to secure a venue to consistently host weekly meditation sessions, group practices and courses.
We are looking for space, donors and volunteers. Please let us know of any ideas, opportunities, or connections you may have!
Lama Yeshe House is looking for a space to meet in the Denver - Boulder Area. We would like to secure a venue to consistently host weekly meditation sessions, group practices and courses.
We are looking for space, donors and volunteers. Please let us know of any ideas, opportunities, or connections you may have!
Uniting Words with the Heart
From the video archive this month, watch Lama Zopa Rinpoche demonstrated how to feel the words in one's heart when reciting prayers and setting motivations. This practice advice was given during the 2004 Council for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (CPMT) meeting in the Netherlands, hosted by FPMT's Maitreya Instituut.
Visit and subscribe to the LYWA YouTube channel to explore a complete video collection of teachings by Lama Yeshe and many from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, available from the archive. For many more videos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings, visit the FPMT YouTube channel.
Visit and subscribe to the LYWA YouTube channel to explore a complete video collection of teachings by Lama Yeshe and many from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, available from the archive. For many more videos of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings, visit the FPMT YouTube channel.
The Best Use of Your Life
Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Taos, New Mexico, 1999. Photo: Lenny Foster.
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
On this month’s podcast, Lama Zopa Rinpoche encourages us to make the best use of our lives by understanding that the mind is the creator of all our happiness and suffering. Through practicing thought transformation, we can discover true freedom. These teachings were given by Rinpoche at the Thirty-third Kopan Meditation Course, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 2000. You can follow along with the transcript on the website.
The LYWA podcast contains hundreds of hours of audio, each with links to the accompanying lightly edited transcripts. See the LYWA podcast page to search or browse the entire collection by topic or date, and for easy instructions on how to subscribe.
The LYWA podcast contains hundreds of hours of audio, each with links to the accompanying lightly edited transcripts. See the LYWA podcast page to search or browse the entire collection by topic or date, and for easy instructions on how to subscribe.
Newly released How to Live and Die
The newly released How to Live and Die: The Transformative Power of Meditating on Impermanence presents Rinpoche’s guidance on the essential truth of impermanence—what death is, how to face it, and the mind to cultivate at the time of death. Rinpoche reminds us not to turn away, but to look directly at this reality.
Order a print or ebook copy on the Wisdom Publications website.
Order a print or ebook copy on the Wisdom Publications website.
About Lama Yeshe House
Grounded in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Dalai Lama, we operate with a non-sectarian spirit, and offer both Buddhist and secular programs and meditation. We are affiliated with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a global Buddhist organization founded by the visionary Tibetan masters Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Most activities are open to join anytime, and are offered freely. Our smaller class sizes create a relaxed atmosphere and space for discussion, plus easy access to instructors. Donations gratefully accepted.
Most activities are open to join anytime, and are offered freely. Our smaller class sizes create a relaxed atmosphere and space for discussion, plus easy access to instructors. Donations gratefully accepted.
