Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Can renunciation arise without effort? In this 7.6-minute teaching, Kyabje Rinpoche distinguishes between made-up renunciation (which requires constant contemplation of suffering) and spontaneous, unmade-up renunciation (where deep familiarity means the thought to leave saṃsāra arises naturally, whenever dissatisfaction is perceived). He explains why this distinction matters: only if renunciation is present does virtue propel you toward freedom. He illustrates through a relatable analogy — a mother with a gravely ill child isn’t thinking of the child constantly, yet the instant she remembers, her wish for the child’s recovery arises without effort. So too with genuine renunciation: no constant effort needed, yet always ready when suffering is perceived.
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File: 1994-08-18 – 16A – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Tenets
Date: 1994-08-18
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~491
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# Tenets 16a 1994-08-18 **Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Tenets (1994) **Duration:** 7.6 minutes **Words:** 493 **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 **Corrections applied:** 0 **Transcribed:** 2026-03-01 02:25 — Once the thought of definite emergence, then whatever virtuous actions one does would contribute directly towards one’s liberation. Otherwise, if in the in the absence of the thought of definite exit, no matter whatever virtuous…
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# Tenets 16a 1994-08-18
**Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Tenets (1994)
**Duration:** 7.6 minutes
**Words:** 493
**Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
**Corrections applied:** 0
**Transcribed:** 2026-03-01 02:25
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Once the thought of definite emergence, then whatever virtuous actions one does would contribute directly towards one’s liberation. Otherwise, if in the in the absence of the thought of definite exit, no matter whatever virtuous actions one does, they would not contribute directly one’s liberation. Opposite to spontaneity is made up. What requires effort where, say, in the case of definite emergence / renunciation if it is a made up or non spontaneous then it would mean in order for that thought to arise in one’s mind one needs to put effort in that sense make up and made up that one needs to constantly again and again contemplate on the suffering and the satisfactory nature of saṃsāra and then only given that there are those effort it would arise whereas spontaneous or more literal unmade up, unmade up definite emergence is where one has thoroughly thoroughly trained in the contemplation about the dissatisfactory nature and suffering of saṃsāra that now one has arrived at a stage there’s no need to put effort at all in order to have that thought arising. Yet it does not have to be there all the time in one state of mind.
It is spontaneous or it is unmade up to the extent that whenever one sees any suffering or dissatisfactory nature of saṃsāra instantly there arises the definite exit thought. There is no appreciation of saṃsāra’s attributes at all. Whenever one sees there is a sense of wanting to exit out of it so that way it is spontaneous that the very moment one sees some sort of dissatisfactory nature there is definite emergence or renunciation. That very moment one doesn’t have to spend time thinking about it and so forth. And it is also as emphasized that being spontaneous, it does not have to be in one’s mental state all the time.
Sometimes it can be there sometimes cannot be there. Say if one is if one’s mental state is in the state of compassion or loving kindness then during such moment of the mind the definite exit is not manifest, it’s latent, so it does not occupy one’s state of mind at that time, so it’s not there. But then the very next moment if one sees or observes a dissatisfactory nature or something, they would arise that thought. There’s an example given say if a mother has only one child and the child is very much tormented by severe sickness then although the mother may not be thinking of the child all the time but whenever the mother remembers or thinks about the child instantly there will be in in her wish and mind may the child recover from the sickness right this moment. There is whenever she thinks about the child there will be that prayer and that example is given as a similar relatable example with the definite exit of its spontaneity aspect.
By the way, yeah. I’m thinking.