Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given to an online, European audience on September 15, 2024 as part of a weekend program, "Compassion Without Limit". The first of three talks aired on the LINK in August 2025. This is the second talk from that program and it is split into two parts for rebroadcast on February 1 and 8, 2026. In this first part, Rinpoche begins by describing the origins of clinging to a sense of self and the attachments, emotions and karma that arise from that. He then decribes the path to nirvana and bliss.