Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 46-minute teaching on equanimity from 1989, a Tibetan Buddhist instructor walks through the classical method for developing equal love toward all beings—overcoming the habit of grasping at friends, rejecting enemies, and ignoring neutral people. From conventional perspective, he establishes that all sentient beings equally want happiness and fear suffering, and that even those we label enemies have benefited us directly or indirectly. From one’s own side, attachment and aversion are inappropriate because all beings have been our kind relatives across lives, and all are equally enslaved by afflictive emotions and impermanence. The ultimate reason comes through the famous image of the Buddha receiving both sandalwood massage and axe blows simultaneously with equal composure: enemies and loved ones are mental projections without inherent existence, dependent on circumstance and changing from year to year. Understanding this emptiness naturally dissolves both clinging and anger, leaving only equanimous compassion. Includes a Q&A section clarifying that equanimity does not mean indifference.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-8b-1989-08-29
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: ~2,280