Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Ven Thubten Dondrub opens this 3-minute introduction to emptiness wisdom by setting the essential groundwork for meaningful Dharma study. He guides students to cultivate a strong positive motivation rooted in bodhicitta — the determination to free oneself and all sentient beings from suffering and delusion. He emphasizes the importance of refuge in the Triple Gem as the foundation for recognizing our Buddha potential and our deep debt of gratitude to all mother sentient beings who have shown us boundless kindness. This brief teaching is aimed at practitioners beginning a module on the wisdom of emptiness and establishes the compassionate, intentional frame necessary for genuine practice.
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File: DB Module Wisdom of Emptiness.mp3
Teacher: Ven Thubten Dondrub
Collection: DB Wisdom of Emptiness (Ven Thubten Dondrub)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~265
So ah, yes. So to make this time as meaningful as possible, to make this time an actual of listening, an actual Dharma practice, a cause to or condition to free our mind from all causes of suffering and to be able to experience peerless, everlasting happiness, then it’s important that we get rid of any negative motivation we may have and generate instead a really strong strong positive motivation, making our motivation the best we possibly can and particularly trying to align our motivation with the the bodhicitta thought wishing to free our mind of all negative imprints and delusions and the its causes ignorance, to awaken all positive qualities, achieve the enlightened state so we’re in the perfect position to be able to repay the kindness of all mother sentient beings. And that thought arises from having refuge in the Triple Gem that leads us to develop faith in our own Buddha potential and then being motivated to develop that Buddha potential by recognizing our huge debt to all sentient beings because they’ve been immensely kind in every possible way, especially giving us the kind