How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Teachings
Suicide Is Not the Solution
In this teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that instead of ending our life by committing suicide, we can use this precious human rebirth to bring benefit and happiness to ourselves and others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
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.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
The Remedy to Depression Is a Good Heart and Purification (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that depression and anxiety can be overcome by practicing the good heart and cherishing others instead of oneself.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression
Feeling Suicidal
Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
Child Depressed and Suicidal
Contemplating Suicide
Depression After Best Friend Passed Away
Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
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Advice on Depression
Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Advice and Practices for Depression and Long Life
Advice on Transforming Depression
Balloon Mantras for Daughter's Depression
Battling with Depression
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Purifying Depression
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression > Purifying Depression
Practices for Depression
Problems Come From Karma and Delusions
Puja and Recitations for Depression
Purification Practice for Depression
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Using Depression to Cut the Ego
Long-term Depression
Use Your Depression to Destroy the Ego
Using Depression on the Path
Ways to Think about Depression
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Seeing How the I Exists
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Chapters:
Why We Need A Spiritual Path (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Chapters:
Emptiness; How Lama Atisha Came to Tibet
Dromtonpa; Searching For the I
Analyzing How the I and Aggregates Exist
Emptiness and Impermanence in Daily Life
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Seeking the "I"
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Searching for the I
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Remedies for Depression
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses techniques for cutting through depression in this excerpt from a teaching at the 28th Kopan Course in 1995.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression
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.
Topics:
Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Transforming Depression
How to use depression to develop compassion and bodhicitta, and ultimately to achieve enlightenment.
Topics:
Negative Emotions > Depression