Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 44-minute teaching, Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen explores how the Heart Sūtra’s central insight into emptiness guides practitioners toward Buddhahood. He begins with renunciation and bodhicitta as the two primary practices—antidotes to the two obscurations—then shows how cultivating the two accumulations of merit and wisdom leads to the Buddha’s two bodies: the Dharmakāya and Rūpakāya. Geshe emphasizes that practice must align with the correct view of emptiness, and he traces the path through stages of accumulation, preparation, and direct seeing. At the heart of his teaching lies the Sūtra’s key point: that form and emptiness are not separate entities but a single reality understood differently—a foundation for meditation practice at every stage. Suited for practitioners with some grounding in Buddhist philosophy.
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File: 13 HS.mp3
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Teacher: Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen
Collection: Heart Sūtra (Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen)
Date: 1996 (exact day not recorded)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 44.3 minutes
Words: ~411
According a line from teaching, saying that the the practice of renunciation and the practice of So, because all things are So, only these two practices, the and doesn’t comes full antidote towards towards the two obscurations. So So so, again, So then on top of that, that in order to to achieve, I wanna say, final state, those two bodies of the Buddha, the Dharmakāya and Rūpakāya, one So so to perfect the accumulation these two accumulations, one one in order to perfect these two accumulations, we we at present engage in these different practices like to perfect the collection of merit and to perfect collection of wisdom, So So so similarly, like, as an example, to to fly forward So so similar to that example, in order to perfect all the qualities to perfect all the qualities, one one need, like, two wings to practice at conventional to practice at conventional bodhicitta and So so in order to have both wings, we we need to generate bodhicitta and just reciting these lines, it’s just not the actual So so then to go into more detail, just different scriptures, like to which scripture at present, we are born as a spiritual being, and and we we have met with the Buddhist teachings.
And another one that but we have met with the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa. And and having all these gather So so that is many teachings, but so whatever the practice that that one performing should should should correspond with with the view of to understand that final view to understand that final view, we study the which is which which have which is on the path of preparation where training applies many logical reasons and So so first on the, like, path of accumulation, which which other line, form is no other than emptiness. Here here, the empty So so the the emptiness of the form, which is empty of the form, that and the form are one entity, same entity, and different, same entity but different. So so up to here, are all empty. So after that, that part is, what is it, the practice of accumulation.
Practice is done on the training on the path of accumulation and the practice which is that line shows the practice of the. So so then on the on the path of seeing, it it continues the same process of meditation, so here, uninterrupted. So so