Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this eight-minute talk, the teacher explores the Buddhist doctrine of boundaryless actions, using the immediate fall of a dropped flower petal as an image for the instantaneous consequence of the five gravest transgressions, such as killing one’s parents. There is no interval, no pause between death and rebirth in the torturous hell realms. The talk then shifts to cosmology, explaining that while all sentient beings have existed since the beginning of this universe, they have not all undergone the same number of rebirths because rebirths in the hell and celestial realms last vastly longer than brief human lifespans. The teaching addresses a potential logical confusion about origins, clarifying that Buddhist reasoning contains no contradiction when applied consistently across multiple universes evolving in sequence.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-7a-1989-08-22
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-08-22
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~446