Was ist mein Ich?

What is my self?

When we think of ourselves, what appears to us? Who, how or what do we think we are? Permanent or transient? An entity (my I) or not? An unchanging reality, or not? And what are the consequences of this view of ourselves?

In the famous Buddhist text "Guide to the Middle Way", the great Buddhist scholar and meditation master Chandrakirti (ca. 7th century AD) says: "Wisdom sees that all delusions and all faults arise from the view of the impermanent aggregate." In this course we will contemplate profound teachings on this from the book HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE MIND, by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, and practice guided meditations in a perhaps new, perhaps very pacifying view of our ego or self.