Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 47-minute session, the teacher provides detailed guidance on generating Bodhicitta—the enlightenment thought—as the proper motivation for Dharma practice, then walks through the meditation on giving and taking (Tonglen), the core practice of thought transformation. Starting with the foundational recognition that all sentient beings, like a blind mother about to fall into an abyss, desperately need our help while we possess the conditions to provide it, the teacher establishes why this moment calls for commitment to attain Buddhahood for their sake. The session then explores the practice of giving in three dimensions: visualizing one’s body transformed into wish-granting gems sent to beings in ugly forms; dissolving the four elements within the body as medicines and resources tailored to each realm’s specific suffering (cool breeze for hell beings, wisdom for animals, relief from hunger for hungry ghosts); and finally sending forth one’s accumulated merit as blissful white light to purify the minds of both those already on the path and those still lost. The teaching is based on a classical lojong (thought transformation) lineage and assumes some familiarity with Dharma vocabulary and Buddhist cosmology.
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Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-11-28
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~3,689