Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 18-minute Q&A, Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen addresses a distinctive question: can an enlightened lama deliberately assume sickness as a teaching method? He explores this through the anecdote of Ling Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama’s senior tutor, who prolonged his own illness to teach detachment and self-reliance. Along the way, he clarifies what emptiness truly means — not a quiet mental state, but direct, stable realization — and connects it to karma as the generative force behind all phenomena, invoking Nāgārjuna’s principle: “Because it is emptiness, everything is possible.”
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File: 02 1994 05 10 How to view lama when assuming sickness, intro to emptiness and wisdom part 2.mp3
Teacher: Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen
Collection: How to view the Lama (Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen)
Date: 1994-05-10
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~1,931