Lama Yeshe explains how we reinforce our delusions. 

Lama Yeshe discusses the benefits of meditation practice in this teaching given at Manjushri Institute in September 1976.

A talk on meditation, excerpted from a commentary on the Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) yoga method, given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in May 1980.

Lama Yeshe discusses tantric meditation experience in this teaching excerpt from A Commentary on the Yoga Method of Divine Wisdom Manjushri.

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

Extracts from a series of teachings given prior to a chöd initiation

Part Two of a series of teachings which are the basis for the book Ultimate Healing.

Part One of a series of teachings which form the basis for the book Ultimate Healing

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

A commentary on Chapter 8—the chapter titled "Meditation"—of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life)

Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent