Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 47-minute teaching, TBI presents core practices from the thought-transformation tradition, focusing on the practice of giving in relation to sentient beings who cause harm. The session opens with offerings to the enlightened—visualizing merit transformed into substances like victory banners and celestial mansions—then shifts to the more distinctive and challenging practice: generating love and compassion for those who inflict suffering, visualizing oneself as vast as Mount Meru and offering one’s body endlessly to these beings as repayment for karmic debts from past lives. TBI illustrates the practice vividly through the example of a mosquito seeking blood, recounting how Rinpoche initially swatted reflexively but then returned with the intention to give as a Bodhisattva act. The session concludes with brief teaching on not being lenient toward one’s own delusions and afflictions—especially self-cherishing and grasping at inherent existence—but instead applying harsh countermeasures. Pitched at serious practitioners already familiar with thought-transformation study.
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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: ~2,945