Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 61-minute session, Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen addresses a foundational question: how should practitioners view their teacher’s illness in Buddhist practice? He explains that the Lama’s sickness is a display meant to teach impermanence. He then turns to the evening’s main topic: why intellectual understanding of emptiness fails to transform the mind. An ordinary person’s consciousness, clouded by ignorance, cannot convert mere conceptual grasp into genuine realization. The remedy requires rigorous reasoning to clear all doubts, followed by sustained meditation on emptiness—first experiencing space-like emptiness during formal sessions, then post-meditation states where phenomena appear without ego-clinging. He clarifies key terms and addresses common misconceptions about sudden realization. Suited to practitioners already studying the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.
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File: 01 1994 05 10 How to view lama when assuming sickness, intro to emptiness and wisdom.mp3
Teacher: Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen
Collection: How to view the Lama (Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen)
Date: 1994-05-10
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~6,338