Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 47-minute teaching, TBI explores the Buddhist view of dependent arising as the foundation for ethical transformation. He establishes that all phenomena—suffering and happiness alike—arise infallibly from their causes, and uses concrete examples from food and clothing to show how the aggregates function. He then moves into the preliminaries of Lamrim practice: examining the faults of cyclic existence, understanding that our suffering arises from the aggregates we have appropriated through past actions and afflictions, and developing renunciation—the determination to emerge from saṃsāra altogether. He stresses that without understanding our own suffering and developing genuine renunciation, we cannot generate the compassion needed for the Bodhisattva path. The teaching concludes with a brief Q&A on confession and the role of motivation in ethical action.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-3b-1989-08-08
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-08-08
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~2,807