The Clear Light Nature of the Mind
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses buddha nature in this teaching excerpted from Kopan Course No. 40.
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
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains how the hallucinatory mind sees everything as inherently existent
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
A teaching on the mind, the death process and the ultimate nature of the I
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
The omniscient mind is the continuity of consciousness that is completely purified of all obscurations.
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.