How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Teachings
Basic Buddhism Is Discovering Your Self (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that we live our entire life grasping at the real I, but in Buddhism we learn that the way the self appears is a total hallucination.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice to prison inmates drawn from more than 100 letters he has written to prisoners over the years. Read excerpts and order a copy.
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Buddhist Practices > Practicing in Prison
Chapters:
Enjoy Life Liberated from the Inner Prison
Editor's Preface
1: Prison Is Not the Real Prison
2: Prison Can Be Your Hermitage
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Advice for Prisoners
Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
Meditation and Practice in Prison
In this collection of advice for those practicing in prison, Rinpoche explains how to use the situation in prison to develop the mind.
Chenrezig Practice in Prison
How to Achieve Real Happiness
Meditation in Prisons
Prison is an Opportunity to Practice
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Practices for Death Row
Advice for Death Row Prisoner
Advice for Prisoner on Death Row
Death Penalty
Practices for Death Row
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Seeing How the I Exists
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
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Why We Need A Spiritual Path (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Chapters:
Emptiness; How Lama Atisha Came to Tibet
Dromtonpa; Searching For the I
Analyzing How the I and Aggregates Exist
Emptiness and Impermanence in Daily Life
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Seeking the "I"
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Searching for the I
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
In Search of the Self
Geshe Ngawang Dargyey gave this teaching on the nature of the self at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Delhi, in 1980.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Who Are You and Where Can You Be Found?
Investigating the nature of the self or I, which exists in mere name on a collection of parts.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"