Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 21-minute teaching on thought transformation, the speaker examines how self-cherishing—the habitual focus on one’s own welfare—is the root cause of all suffering across all realms of saṃsāra, from hot and cold hell beings to humans and gods. He explains that even practitioners who attain liberation through meditating on emptiness remain in the “lower vehicle” if they cling to self-cherishing, and therefore cannot reach the status of bodhisattvas or Buddhas. The core instruction is to deliberately replace self-cherishing thought with the thought of cherishing others, understanding that other-centred compassion is the true source of all lasting benefit and good qualities. The teaching includes practical guidance on meditation: either elaborate reflection on how every suffering stems from self-focus, or at minimum, clear recognition of two points—that self-cherishing blocks all we desire and that cherishing others generates everything good. The session closes with a five-minute guided meditation on this exchange, framed as discovering the “wisdom eye” that sees both the poison and the medicine.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-14b-1989-10-24
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-10-24
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~1,490