In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that this human body is a result of our past virtuous karma, in this excerpt from the 31st Kopan Course.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises the importance of having a pure motivation free from worldly concerns, so that our actions become Dharma. This excerpt is from a series of ten discourses that form the basis of Rinpoche's book The Door to Satisfaction.

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.

In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains that everything comes from karma, so we can create suffering or happiness, enlightenment or hell.

In this teaching Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma, the actions of body, speech and mind.

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.

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

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.