Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 27-minute teaching, a teacher explains the practice of giving and taking (tonglen) within Tibetan Buddhist Thought Transformation, emphasizing how great compassion is the root of all Mahāyāna practice. The session walks through the mechanics of the visualization: taking on the suffering of all sentient beings, beginning with future lifetimes, then expanding progressively through relatives, neutral beings, enemies, and all six classes of sentient existence, before moving to purifying the environment itself. A story of Geshe Chekawa illustrates the unexpected merit-accumulation of the practice: despite praying his whole life to be reborn in hell realms to help suffering beings, his practice generated such merit he received visions of rebirth in pure lands instead. The teaching concludes with a guided meditation on four aspects of compassion, anchoring the session in direct personal practice rather than intellectual understanding.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-16b-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: ~2,049