How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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.
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
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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.