How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses the death process and explains the signs which indicate that the consciousness has left the body. Rinpoche draws on his own experiences of seeing the deceased and gives a detailed account of Lama Yeshe's passing and cremation.
A public lecture on the death process, the intermediate state and rebirth, given by Lama Yeshe in Sweden on September 8, 1983.
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
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
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to analyze reincarnation
An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma
An obituary by Nicholas Ribush and a brief remembrance written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Published as the foreword to "Death, Intermediate State and Rebirth" by Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins
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.