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.
Advice and practices to remove obstacles to success.
Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia on June 2, 2006.
The I appears to exist from its own side, but it is merely imputed by the mind
Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
Investigating the nature of the self or I, which exists in mere name on a collection of parts.
Geshe Ngawang Dargyey gave this teaching on the nature of the self at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Delhi, in 1980.
The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
