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

Rinpoche teaches on guru devotion, using Milarepa’s life story as an inspiring example, in this excerpt from the 38th Kopan Course.

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.

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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.

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A teaching about the life of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, a great bodhisattva and scholar from the Kinnaur region of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. 

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

Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship

The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates

Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes the life and work of the great bodhisattva Atisha.

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.