Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this brief 5-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun works through a live logic puzzle with his students at Buddha House, using the pair “human” and “Australian” to test their grasp of pervasion — the formal relationship that determines whether one category necessarily entails another. He guides the class toward identifying which of the four possible relationships holds between the two terms, prompting students to speak up if they are unsure rather than stay silent. Homework is assigned, with full debate promised for the following session, and note five on the study sheet flagged for reading. The session closes with a brief dedication prayer. Suited to students actively studying the Collected Topics debate curriculum.
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File: 20 CT 1988 04 26.mp3
UUID: a3fc2059-4498-4ab5-9705-be383f2afc7b
Teacher: Ven Jampa Gendun
Collection: Collected Topics (Ven Jampa Gendun)
Date: 1988-04-26
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 5.3 minutes
Words: ~367
So if you look at the yeah. But man is not pervaded by some men are Australian. Sorry. If it if it’s if it’s a, it’s pervaded it is not pervaded by being b. Not pervaded by being b.
If it’s a, it’s not pervaded by being b. If it’s b? It’s not pervaded by being a. If it was three possibilities, one of these, but there must be a pervasion in one of those. Okay.
Let’s let’s try and Okay. Why don’t Oh, we don’t have any time. Yeah. Anybody have a little bit of Is it coming? Anybody have any questions on this?
We’ll just take this man and Aussie. Does anybody feel that they could come up with the pervasion between these two? All right, we’ll take a man. human, and Aussie. human and Aussie.
Does everybody feel that they could determine that relation? What is the relationship between this object and this object? human and Aussie. Anybody thinks they might have a problem? Please don’t feel shy.
Mental exemption. I mean, it’s it’s obviously the fourth possibility. Right? Okay. Good.
I was gonna get some more homework, but maybe see, I can Maybe try to work this out for next time. And then we’ll spend a lot of time debating it. Okay. So you know the answer to the first one. A key.
And if at some time you could read, On this sheet, if you could read note five. One of these We’re gonna get to that. And then this this will help you to develop develop help to establish reasons. What is a correct reason? You win you win a prize.
How did you do that? Must have must have bled through. Let’s see. This is yeah. We need two.
Two. I have to make some more. I have to make some more. Last week’s. I have to make some more of the No, here, here.
Through these merits, may I soon attain the enlightened state of Guru Buddha, and may I lead every migrating being without exception to that state. May the precious bodhi mind not yet born arise and grow. May that born have no decline, but increase forevermore.