Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 48-minute teaching on thought transformation, the speaker establishes great compassion as the single integrated foundation of all Buddhist practice. He begins by anchoring compassion in the recognition that all sentient beings have been one’s mother and are suffering, then introduces the four qualities of compassion: the wish for them to be free of suffering, the prayer for that liberation, the exalted determination to undertake their welfare alone, and supplication for blessing to accomplish this. He illustrates how compassion functions as the root of bodhicitta (enlightenment mind) through classical examples: the golden wheel of a universal monarch where all armies naturally follow the wheel’s movement, and the life-sustaining organ without which no other organ survives. The core instruction is that all activities—sleeping, eating, teaching, meditation on emptiness—must be integrated and motivated by this one compassion rather than scattered across multiple practices. He concludes with the example of Ārya Asaṇga, whose twelve years of futile Maitreya visualization bore fruit only when he spontaneously generated compassion for a suffering dog, revealing the deity. Pitched at practitioners already familiar with bodhicitta and the six perfections.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-16a-1989-11-14
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-11-14
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~3,767