Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Ven Thubten Dondrub opens a short Thursday evening class introducing a multi-week commentary on the Twenty-One Praises to Tārā. He emphasizes that listening to Dharma becomes a genuine practice only when accompanied by proper motivation — ideally the altruistic intention of bodhicitta. He invites students to open their texts and settle into meditation, and after a brief search for his glasses, steps back to let the group meditate. This is an entry point into a sustained devotional and analytical study of Tārā practice, suited to practitioners who already have some familiarity with Buddhist methods.
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File: 01 – 21 Taras 2014 04 24 24042014.mp3
Teacher: Ven Thubten Dondrub
Collection: Twenty One Taras (Ven Thubten Dondrub)
Date: 2014-04-24
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~298
So welcome everyone to oh, welcome everyone to our Thursday night class. So for a few Thursdays, I’m going to just give a small commentary on the twenty one praises to Torah or the praises to the twenty-one Taras, whichever way you want to put it. It comes down to the same thing. So for this to be most beneficial for our mind, then it’s important that from our side, although the topic is the Dharma, from our side we need to have the right motivation for listening to the Dharma. Just listening to the Dharma doesn’t become a Dharma practice.
It depends on our motivation. So we should try and make our motivation as beneficial as strong and clear and as the best one possible and that of course is the Bodhicitta motivation. So we actually focus on that we can turn to page five. So many things happening before this class. Forgot to put a picture of the of Tārā up.
Alright. Does everyone know what Tārā looks like? Do we need a picture? No, Tārā is there. Can I think it’s okay?
It’s just I’ve I’ve I’ve misplaced my glasses. Sorry. Can you wait a few moments? No. Actually, while you’re meditating, I’ll disappear and I’ll leave you to meditate.
Okay. I pressed your