Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 44-minute teaching, a Tibetan Buddhist master unpacks the foundation of bodhicitta, the altruistic mind dedicated to liberating all sentient beings from suffering. Using the metaphor of a farmer tending his field, the teacher explains why sentient beings are as precious to a Dharma practitioner as soil is to cultivation: they are the essential ground on which all spiritual development depends. The teaching walks through the two causes of bodhicitta—love and compassion—and shows how every good quality a practitioner can achieve, from the six perfections to enlightenment itself, requires sentient beings as the object and condition. The master contrasts cherishing others with self-cherishing, illustrating how happiness and good rebirth flow from altruism while suffering arises from harm-doing, and addresses the practical obstacle that arises when practitioners face abuse or insult while training in compassion, offering a karmic framework for understanding such difficulties. Aimed at practitioners already engaged with Mahāyāna Buddhist study.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-13a-1989-10-17
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-10-17
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~3,154