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

Rinpoche gives an oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa's text, In Praise of Dependent Arising, and teaches on emptiness, karma and bodhicitta

Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.

Defining the correct view of subtle dependent arising, dependence upon name

A teaching by Geshe Rabten on the twelve links which bind us to cyclic existence.

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.