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.
In this video extract, Rinpoche advises that it is most important for young people to learn Dharma, to learn about the mind. Equally important is practicing the good heart, patience and contentment.
Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.
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.