Autoplay Next video from Max length

20180601 1900 LZR CI, Australia - What is I? How it appears and how we create the root of samsara

102 views · Published 22 August 2018 · 2:50:15 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: FPMT · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

Rinpoche began by explaining the importance of generating a good heart before you speak to someone, as a result happiness will come in future lives. Any action you do with your body, speech and mind, do for others, with a good heart. The benefit of this – then there is always happiness. Rinpoche spoke about the emptiness of the I and that you cannot find the I. On the basis of believing in a real I, then attachment arises and from that self-cherishing thought comes and this comes from ignorance. The self-cherishing thought is like a dictatorship that has been harming you and all sentient beings from beginningless rebirths. Rinpoche explained how the I starts, on a valid base, which then the mind makes up a label “I”. That concept is the merely imputed “I”. Rinpoche then mentioned how important it is to read the Diamond Cutter Sutra and Heart Sutra. From this you collect extensive merits. Just keeping faith in Buddha’s teachings on emptiness you collect so much merit. Meditating on emptiness even 5 minutes a day and you become closer to enlightenment. The biggest danger is believing the real I, which is not there, entrusting in that ignorance causes you to suffer in the oceans of samsaric suffering.

20180601 1900 LZR CI, Australia - What is I? How it appears and how we create the root of samsara

More from this channel