Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 44-minute teaching on thought transformation, a teacher explores equanimity as the foundation for cultivating the awakening heart and the practice of exchanging self for others. After establishing the proper motivation for receiving a Mahāyāna teaching, the talk focuses on a nine-part meditation on equanimity, divided into three perspectives on others, three on oneself, and three on ultimate reality. From the conventional view, all beings equally desire happiness yet suffer from its absence, all fear suffering yet are constantly tormented by it. From one’s own side, all sentient beings benefit us — directly, through neutral people indirectly, and through those who harm us by offering opportunities to cultivate patience and purify negativity. The teaching emphasizes that both self and others are equally controlled by karma and affliction, equally impermanent and non-inherently existent, making differential attachment and hatred entirely inappropriate. The instruction is directed at practitioners of high intelligence capable of working with the advanced teaching of self-other exchange.
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Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-08-29
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~2,512