Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this two-minute closing excerpt, Ven Jampa Gendun lands a sharp point about emptiness: nothing exists independently of language and concepts, and grasping objects as if they define themselves — as inherently beautiful or repulsive — is precisely what keeps us captivated and averse. Once that misconception is recognised and released, he explains, beauty and ugliness remain present in the world but no longer bind us, and peace becomes genuinely available. He then leads a brief dedication prayer, offering the merit of the session’s meditation and discussion toward becoming an awakened teacher capable of guiding all sentient beings to enlightenment, and closing with the aspiration that bodhicitta — the awakening heart — arise and grow in those present.
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File: 25 HoM 1993 06 16.mp3
Teacher: Ven Jampa Gendun
Collection: The Heart and Mind of Awakening (Ven Jampa Gendun)
Date: 1993-06-16
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~281
Without language and concepts, nothing exists. That they are empty of existing independently of language and concepts. Once this is understood, then the misconceptions, the wrong beliefs which perceive these objects to exist independent, that they define themselves, that they exist from their own side beauty and repulsiveness and every other quality that we assign to that object. Once we overcome that misconception, then we’re no longer captivated. Then we can make use of objects.
There is beauty in the world, but we’re not captivated by There is unattractive objects in the world, but we’re not repulsed by them. Then we find peace. So we’ll look at that. I’m going stop there. It’s quite interesting.
I like this stuff. But I’m afraid I’m Yeah. Okay. I will dedicate the creative potential that we’ve accumulated through our meditation and listening, discussing. May I quickly become an awakened spiritual teacher and lead each and every sentient being the enlightened realm through these skillful actions.
May the supreme jewel of the awakening heart that has not arisen arise and grow. Amen. That which has never diminished, but increase more. Thank you. Thank you.
So those who would like to remain?