Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering traces every form of happiness — a fortunate human rebirth, the higher realms, liberation, and full enlightenment — back to a single mental cause: the wish to benefit others. The session centres on one verse from Śāntideva’s Bodhisattva Way of Life, unpacking why the phrase commonly translated as “wishing others to be happy” points specifically to the altruistic mind, and why from that orientation nothing but good can follow. The commentary is brief but precise, building the causal logic step by step. Part of a multi-year series through Śāntideva’s text, it suits students already following the commentary.
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File: 2006 05 02 Bodhisattvas Way of Life.mp3
Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering
Collection: Bodhisattva Way of Life 2005 Mar -2007 (Geshe Pema Tsering)
Date: 2006-05-02
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~211
And then Gala goes to explain the first part of the verse, which refers to all all and every happiness there is comes from the wish of desire, comes from wishing others to be happy. And then, Ganaija Espana, so then that which was translated as as wishing others to be happy is is referring to to that mind which wishes to benefit others. And from that mind that wishes to benefit others, nothing but good will follow from that mind. So so then happiness will follow. So then the happiness of a good human rebirth or the happen the happiness of the realms and and so forth, and the happiness of liberation, and the happiness of enlightenment, and all all happiness follows from it.