Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 33-minute talk, Lama Lhundup offers practical guidance on shifting mental patterns through mindful recognition and spiritual practice. He begins with the cornerstone insight: when destructive emotions—anger, jealousy, pride—arise in the mind, you can recognise them and choose not to act on them, breaking the cycle of suffering rooted in delusion. He then explores rejoicing in others’ happiness and the virtue of Buddhas and bodhisattvas as a direct method for accumulating merit daily. The core practice centres on visualising Buddha and receiving blessings through light that purifies negativities from within. Lama Lhundup illustrates wrathful compassion—showing outer strength without inner anger—through the example of a monastery teacher managing students, and explores the seeming paradox of self-checking without inflating ego. Oriented toward practitioners new to Buddhist practice.
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Teacher: Lama Lhundup
Collection: Changing our perspectives (Lama Lhundup)
Date: 1987 (exact day not recorded)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 33.1 minutes
Words: ~1,980
So so what is bad? What is good? You you realize, you recognize that any you can watch in your mind, then any kind bad cause comes, then you can need stop. This is bad. I used people a long time, so therefore I’m suffering many many problems.
So now I realize these problems comes from this kind of thoughts. So now I you know, so now I must need to stop. So anything any that’s kind of delusion, jealous, and those things comes, then you recognize, oh, coming now. So then you can stop. Your anger comes, stop.
Jealous comes, stop. Pride comes, stop. Why am I right? If I have tried, never become peace. Pride make my peace, own peace, destroy him.
All jealous, all these things. Anything you can see the people nice things. Nice things, happy, whatever they have, you can sow, you rejoice. You rejoice very much. So, from rejoice, you made good karma.
You made merits. So, we have how to make merits. So many methods. Methods. So you can rejoice other people happy.
When they saw other people happy, you can rejoice. You make merit so much. And you can rejoice holy beings. You rejoice Buddhas, bodhisattvas. You can see holy beings, they’re doing all the time, helping sentient beings, keeping giving teachings, so much, you know, so much charity to all sentient beings.
So you can rejoice. So you rejoice to the holy being, you know, so they have fully merits. So you can rejoice, you get something. And you get something merits, then very special. So every day you can have a rejoice, then every day you’re making merits.
Merits. So sometimes you have accumulated perfectly merits. So, also, we can sometimes think about Buddha. We can visualize Buddha. That’s very important, very useful.
We visualize Buddha, then we get pure object. By pure object really helps our mind become peace, clean. Most time we use object to dirty things, so our mind becomes dirty. We use object to mind purely, object purely, then mind become easily pure. So therefore, very important to be visualized, you know, Buddha.
So you can visualize Buddha, then can see clearly Buddha, then you can check, you can accept, believe this is really Buddha, this is really my guru, this is really my protector, know, special. So you can just taking blessing, strong faith, strong faith, strong faith through him. Then you can You have strong then you can then you can try, then you can you take blessing. By strong faith, you receive a good blessing. Because blessing is depending on mind.
How we receive blessing is by faith. No faith, no blessing. No. Everything dependent, you see. You think Buddha is qualified.
How much Buddha works? How much Buddha has knowledge? We cannot count. Countless knowledge. Buddha has countless knowledge.
Power. So kind. So you can have visualized, take a blessing, light, you know. Then in heart, your our own your negativities, delusions, all this black. So you that light come through in your in your body.
Goes inside in the body. All these negativities, delusion, plagues, all go under the ground. Completely go out. So you’re receiving insight Buddha’s blessing, light. Then you you ex you you accept, and I received Buddha’s blessing.
Then you’re really feeling comfortable, happy. Then you concentrate. So now we can try, we can visualize Buddha. And then just I just first today’s beginning, just do this mantra I gave. Om and three times you can repeat, then we can few times we do together.
And then you also, that time, you visualize Buddha, try, then take blessing, make prayer, focus on light. Now I can just say Buddha’s mantra. You can repeat three times. So now we can try visualizing Buddha. So then we can recite few times together.
With that time, take blessing through Buddha heart. So much light come through you. Visualize in heart negativities or delusions. So light through comes in the heart. All negativities destroy or go out under the ground.
Completely destroyed. Accept, you think, completely destroyed all negativities. Completely purified. Empty. You feel very comfortable.
Again, take blessings. Really Buddha’s knowledge, love, compassion with blessing. Take in light. Inner, visualize light. This is Buddha’s blessing.
Real Buddha’s knowledge, wisdom. With that, you concentrate. A few minutes, you meditate. Okay. So now think now we have some question answer.
You have some questions, you can, so somebody can translate. Yeah. You have some questions? Yes, please. When you’re talking about anger, you said that it was never any good.
Your anger makes people change. When I say very unjust things. Right. Right. Yeah.
Just looks like that, but anger, just you Yeah. They just you show anger, then they afraid. You know? They need change. You make a scare.
No, I we don’t need anger. Anger, nature coming. We just so many long time we practice. It’s coming. But we just how to change?
Just other people, they’re just doing bad things. How just, oh, if I do, if he does like that, then he becomes bad, suffering. He gets problem. I most need to do for him, for her, whatever. So then you don’t need to show anger.
Just you can show physical body just looks anger, wrathful. You show wrathful completely, you know? Then he can change it. So he is laughing. Just here.
I remember. Face is completely wrathful and angry. That okay. Stupid. Okay?
Good. Find that very hard to understand because it’s so alien. That’s my way of thinking. And you can be wrathful here, but not in here. Yes, yes, no anger.
Here, compassion. Motivation, compassion. That’s beginning difficult. Just the word with coming words and here practice difficult, different. So we just first, we are intellectual, need to understand.
So then how to use? We need think about more Long time need to practice, meditate, meditate. Then coming. Buddha shows sometimes, you know, completely wrathful, you know, four, three, or a hundred eyes, you know, you know. Then they’re completely scared, you know.
Buddha dressed like that, so we can do that. It’s okay. Mhmm. At beginning, difficult to you too. Me too, difficult.
You know, I have my monastery, so many boys. I need fight a lot every day, you know? So beginning so difficult. Then after I show anger, then I’m so unhappy. So but I’m changing, so then I learn something.
So then I show wrathful here, laughing, then that’s good. Then after I show wrathful whatever I talk, after not unhappiness. Oh, I’m good. Yeah. Mhmm.
If you have if you’ve got a good heart, why do you have to show anger? Why do you have to appear awful? Because, you know, person, different people, some people they show wrathful, then easily they’re changing. Some people show wrathful, they’re not changing. So that kind of person needs you peace, nice talking, Then he’s exchanging.
Send to your child. Sometimes he needs a smack for that. Sometimes he needs a different approach for five children. Sometimes he needs a very beautiful, suitable conversation, then they’re really easy changing. Some they need most radical, sometimes need a beat, so then they action changing.
Changing. Yes. You know? How do you distinguish the difference when rough thought was needed compared to peaceful? What is it?
How do you know inside which way what the other person needs? So just we not realize what his nature. Then you can just test, you know, sometimes radical show, sometimes peace show, then which more beneficial for him? Then He should respond. Yes.
So then peaceful more beneficial, so you always you have peaceful. You know, just talking nice. Sometimes radical useful, you do yes. Otherwise, he cannot learn anything. Not correct.
Also bad things, not stop. You know? It’s good for them to be able to work with the wrath as well, isn’t it? Yes. Not be frightened, but to accept that wrathful aspect.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Excuse me. Could whoever asked the question, could they have the microphone and speak into it? Otherwise, it’s not going to be comprehensible all the time. Mhmm. Okay.
Yeah, that’s a good idea, no question. Okay, yes. Mhmm. Mhmm. Okay.
Someone, you have questions? Yeah? If you’re trying to move away from the ego, if you’re trying to remove, to break down the attachment to the ego, if you’re always checking your own behaviour, if you’re always conscious of your own behaviour, that somehow conflicts with that from the beginning point of view. Okay, go ahead. How do you work?
You’re saying, like, ego reduction? Yeah, how does one work, always checking one’s behaviour without that starting to grow into a greater attachment to the ego? If you check always in yourself, then ego becomes bigger bigger. If there is that possibility. Oh, yeah, yeah.
So therefore, we need to check, you know. Your ego become if you not check, then ego is become bigger or less, you don’t know. You check. Ego is bigger, you mustn’t stop. You push down.
Put down ego. So therefore checking is very important. You know, always need checking. You realize ego coming bigger, then you must put down. Why you you come out?
You know? You’re stupid. You just need to put down many things. Okay. That’s good.
Okay. Need to be checking. Checking is very important. You know? Then you can realize then by checking, then you get wisdom.
No checking, no wisdom. No wisdom, then you how you destroy these things, bad things. Okay? Yes. Right?
How? If you check inside, how become ego, bigger ego? How? Sorry. It’s a question to you.
Yeah, but I didn’t quite understand. If you’re checking, watching your ego, how does it get bigger? What makes it get bigger while you’re checking it? Oh, if it is your ego saying I want to do better. I’m sorry.
Yeah, yeah. If it is your ego that says, I want to do better, therefore I want to check my own behaviour, then it’s like it’s giving more substance to the ‘me’. Know, what is my behaviour? What am I doing? What am I thinking?
Rather than being outward, external, concentrating on what is coming in. What are other people thinking? If you check your ego just how to be better than others. Then your ego is become bigger, bigger. You know?
You know? I I do, you know, check means just check to mind. Look to mind. You realize, you know, all these subtle negative thoughts, negative thoughts. This coming or not, you need to check.
If this kind of thoughts come out, oh, I don’t need to use, I don’t use this. You know, can stop self-cherishing thoughts, mind comes, I don’t use this one. Anger comes, I don’t use this one. If you use this one, then I make trouble myself to others. So I most, very important, this kind of thoughts I need stopping, abandoning.
For that purpose, need check. If you think, oh, I do better than other. I make my body better, others. You know? I’m bigger, rich, and better others.
Then your ego is going to get bigger. Okay? So this check-in, looking to the mind. Doing bad things or good things. Know?
Destroying other or not. This kind of need check. Checking is different, you know? So then this your ego is never going bigger. Just lost, you know, less, less, less, less, less.
Because what ego wants, you’re stopping. What do you ego want? Stopping. So then how you become ego? Bigger.
No. Okay? Yes. Sounds okay? Okay.
Alright. Mhmm. Okay. Okay.
Alright. Okay. Now thank you very much. We need to be dedicated. Okay?
Mhmm. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.