Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 40-minute teaching on thought transformation, the speaker explores the practice of giving and taking, emphasizing how to begin with the person you cherish most and progressively expand to include all sentient beings across the six realms. The core instruction unfolds in stages: starting with your own future-life suffering to build momentum, then shifting practice to your mother, closest relatives, neutral persons, and finally enemies. Throughout, the teacher stresses that giving and taking, rooted in compassion, serves two critical purposes—weakening self-cherishing by absorbing all suffering into that destructive thought until it becomes an object of dislike, while simultaneously strengthening love for others. The meditation culminates in recognizing how this practice generates bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration to attain Buddhahood for all beings, and accumulates the merit and wisdom collections needed for enlightenment. The final section guides practitioners through a structured meditation on taking their own future suffering first, then expanding to all sentient beings, showing how even small pains experienced now represent the complete elimination of future suffering. Suited to practitioners already studying the Lamrim.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-15b-1989-11-07
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-11-07
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~3,047