Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 48-minute talk, Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen explores the philosophical foundations of the Buddhist path through the three vehicles. Using a central metaphor of water, irrigation, and ripening crops, he examines how compassion serves as the root quality that sustains all spiritual development. The teaching emphasizes that without repeatedly cultivating great compassion, practitioners risk limiting themselves to the lesser vehicle or failing to complete their practice. The framework demonstrates how the middle way—like the careful tending required during the interval between planting and harvest—enables practitioners to bring their spiritual path to full fruition rather than leaving it incomplete.
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File: 1991-02-07 – 1B – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Entering the Middle Way
Date: 1991-02-07
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~283
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# 1991-02-07 – 1B – KR **Collection:** Audio Recordings — Entering the Middle Way **Duration:** 48.8 minutes **Words:** 283 **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 **Corrections applied:** 0 **Transcribed:** 2026-03-08 02:54 — So here, you didn’t realize we are born from. And we we ask the question, well, And if we would if we would add or what are these three qualities dependent…
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# 1991-02-07 – 1B – KR
**Collection:** Audio Recordings — Entering the Middle Way
**Duration:** 48.8 minutes
**Words:** 283
**Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
**Corrections applied:** 0
**Transcribed:** 2026-03-08 02:54
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So here, you didn’t realize we are born from. And we we ask the question, well, And if we would if we would add or what are these three qualities dependent upon which for the sufferers first as their root passion. The second verse So the metaphor demonstrating the the root of all acts and qualities of the three vehicles. It has it has preceptions. And at first, the the actual takes itself and says why?
Why Why? In what way? The question, in what way is compassion the root of that? And then it it it begins to set up the three part metaphor. It says, But here, in interval, we have to water.
Again and again, make use of the water as a compassion. Then finally, so that the the crop is just about to come to fruition. And and to ensure that it has all of its potential, all of its nutritional value, we So in order to have provides himself to ensuring these three conditions along the way. And then how does this come a rich harvest? He might let the new horizon.
The that’s gonna be the great long the great enjoyment one has into the great vehicle, if one does not, again and again, cultivate great compassion, one will either fall to the lesser vehicle or one the metaphor is the where in the middle in the interval that is that in order that for the sprouts to grow and eventually come to fruition, that is necessary
And, again, there is he may fall to the lesser vehicle, or he will not be able to bring to completion his practice, and therefore, in the interval of the.