How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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.
Seeing How the I Exists
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Why We Need A Spiritual Path (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
Seeking the "I"
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
Searching for the I
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
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.
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.