Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 46-minute teaching on thought transformation, TBI walks through a foundational practice in Mahāyāna Buddhism: cultivating equanimity and compassion toward all sentient beings by recognising their equal desire for happiness and freedom from suffering. He begins by establishing why both Buddhas and sentient beings are equally essential to our spiritual path, then develops a nine-part equanimity meditation that moves beyond the conventional approach of seeing all beings as former mothers to a direct recognition that all sentient beings are equally deserving of our care. The core teaching focuses on the critical shift from self-cherishing to other-cherishing, examining the logical inconsistency of holding ourselves dear while neglecting beings who share our fundamental wish to be happy. He introduces the central principle of thought transformation: all suffering arises from the single fault of self-cherishing, and liberation and Buddhahood are impossible without exchanging that attitude for genuine compassion and concern for others.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-9a-1989-09-05
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-09-05
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~3,121