Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 49-minute talk, Kyabje Rinpoche establishes the essential foundation for a Chenrezig empowerment: correct motivation. He shows why students must direct practice toward liberation and the welfare of all beings—selfish desire for personal happiness cannot lead to enlightenment. The core teaching: bodhicitta, the aspiration to help all beings, must join with wisdom realizing emptiness; neither alone suffices for authentic practice. He then walks through the logic of the Mahāyāna path: the precious human life we possess is the rare resource needed to cultivate the six perfections—generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom. He concludes by outlining the five-part structure of the empowerment itself, showing how visualization and proper understanding transform what could be mere ritual into genuine spiritual work.
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File: 1990-07-28 – 1A – Empowerment – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Chenrezig
Date: 1990-07-28
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~604
In our own hands. It’s under our control. What we make use of this life. But we have the power to create the type of future that we see. And while we have this this control, we should seek to create the causes for virtue in general, but more specifically, the practice of the great vehicle.
In order to pursue such a practice, that we need such a type of life that we all possess now. If without such a type of life, then there’s no way in which we can carry on the vast activities and extensive practices of a great vehicle. What are we to do in the course of our practice of Dharma? Mainly, we’re concerned with finding the happiness that we want and eliminating the suffering that we don’t want. Therefore, it’s necessary But even that the awakening heart is not sufficient to bring to consummation the practice of the great vehicle.
It’s necessary that our practice that our awakening heart be coupled with the wisdom realizing emptiness. And the way that we actually carried on our practice is in coupling these two, awakening heart and realization of emptiness, and implementing the practices of generosity, ethics, patience, effort, meditative stabilization, and wisdom. And this is the way we carry on the practice of the great vehicle If we carry on our practice like this, then we can bring to ultimate fulfillment, the welfare of both oneself and others, that we can abandon all our various faults and bring the consummation of all our good qualities and become enlightened. But this way of practice requires extremely long time. And in the meanwhile, sentient beings are suffering.
And it’s necessary that we not only attain enlightenment, but we And within secret mantra, there are various levels of practice in accordance with the the dispositions of the various disciples. There are the lower tantras of action and performance, and the upper tantras, the higher tantras of yoga, highest from the point of view of the the the empowering master, the he has he has performed the self generation practice. He has established his construction. With respect to the preparation which takes place today, it is divided into five sections. The first is the development of the motivation. And in this respect to our motivation, if we were to if we were to think I am going to attend this empowerment of Chenrezig in order to gain the happiness of this life, then this would And with regards to the second, though in fact, it it benefits future lives, but it has no it has no benefit.
It has no force with respect to achieving the ultimate result of Buddhism. It cannot such a motivation cannot help us obtain the fruit of Buddhahood. We do the That it will never that the benefits deriving from such a motivation will never be exhausted until we’ve achieved the fruit of our our intention. And therefore, it will not only benefit us in this life, but in all our Subsequent to the sprinkling of water, we are going to go into emptiness. And out of this emptiness, we should arise in the form of a sambhogakaya deity, with one face and two arms.
Until Now we’re going to make a request in which we are to say, please grant me the empowerment. Then we’re going to recite a verse, explaining the meaning of the verse. The first is first that we refer to the the the empowering master using the that that please show me the unerring path to liberation and omniscience.