Letters and advice sent to dignitaries and students regarding resolution of conflict and how to bring peace and happiness to the region.
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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.
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
Written for the newsletter of the Australia Tibet Council
Impressions of Tibet from a 1995 visit, which included pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash, Lake Mansarovar and other sacred sites.
Geshe Ngawang Dargyey gave this teaching on the nature of the self at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Delhi, in 1980.
Investigating the nature of the self or I, which exists in mere name on a collection of parts.
