Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 46-minute talk, a teacher at Kopan Monastery explores the root cause of all suffering: self-centeredness. The core argument unfolds methodically: self-centeredness, driven by attachment to one’s own happiness at the exclusion of others, is the source of negative actions and continuous rebirth in cyclic existence. The teacher contrasts this with other-centeredness—the wish to bring happiness to others and eliminate their suffering—which is the foundation of the Mahāyāna path and leads to happiness for both self and others. The teaching includes definitions drawn from Buddhist philosophers Asaṇga and Śāntideva, a story of a Kadampa practitioner embodying teachings on moral discipline, and a clarification that renunciation (wishing to abandon suffering) differs from self-centeredness because it targets the suffering of universal conditionality rather than temporary discomfort. Pitched at practitioners undertaking thought-transformation practice.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-11b-1989-09-11
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-09-11
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~2,451