How We Create Ignorance
In this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course, Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ignorance, the root of samsara.
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Teachings
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.
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
How to Think When Making Charity to Beggars (Video)
In this video extract, Lama Zopa Rinpoche advises how to make charity to beggars by remembering the bodhicitta attitude and reflecting on emptiness, so that the action of giving becomes the cause of enlightenment.
Advice on Developing Bodhicitta
Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation
Generating Bodhicitta
How to Live Your Life with Bodhicitta
Live Your Life With Bodhicitta
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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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Seeing How the I Exists
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
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Seeking the "I"
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
Who Are You and Where Can You Be Found?
Investigating the nature of the self or I, which exists in mere name on a collection of parts.
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Emptiness > Nature of the "I"
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"