Collected Topics

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun opens this 47-minute session by acknowledging…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A lively classroom debate over whether a hermaphrodite is…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The Collected Topics curriculum opens with color — defined…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A puzzle about saying "pot" twice opens this 46-minute…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a handout he compares to a nuclear reactor…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The puzzle of how we know something actually exists…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute class, Ven Jampa Gendun works through…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A sustained classroom debate about whether space is a…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 36-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Whether space is permanent or impermanent — and what…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A visual puzzle opens this 45-minute session: Ven Jampa…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A live debate session rather than a lecture, this…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun physically dismantles a pen in class…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute class, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The practical question of why Vipassana walking — scanning…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Since this is a writing task rather than a…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Does hatred raise your blood pressure?" — Ven Jampa…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a mirror-image analogy to explain how sense consciousness…

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…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute class, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a passion fruit — something he has never…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why does a generous act destroyed by anger still…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. How does the mind form a concept of "car"…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a student named Kimball as a live example,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 44-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun leads students…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The puzzle that drives this 47-minute session: if you…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 46-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the example of a child who learns to…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 46-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun works through…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a pot — "a bulbous thing, flat bottom,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun leads students…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Omniscience which is a pot" — deliberately absurd —…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Fire is pervaded by heat — but is body…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Omniscience which is green" — the impossibility of that…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The puzzle of whether pot and thing are the…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using set theory as an analogy, Ven Jampa Gendun…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The "complete way of applying instance" — three criteria…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. To understand a table, the mind grasps it as…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this brief 6-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun uses…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun unpacks Buddhist…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The paradox that a white horse is not white…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The classic syllogism "sound is impermanent because it is…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The three conditions that make clay pot an instance…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Does 'pencil and table' exist as a single entity?"…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Can sound be consciousness? That live debate question anchors…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun guides students…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of backing a debating opponent toward a…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why can't the brain be the substantial cause of…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute revision class, Ven Jampa Gendun quizzes…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Dogs, cats, and oil trapped under the ocean all…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The question of whether a green pot necessarily qualifies…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 5-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun works through…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The puzzle of whether "Alastair" and "Sue's husband" are…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a table, three fingers held up side by…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of Denny fitting into "woman" the way…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this two-minute excerpt, Ven Jampa Gendun works through…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A debate about whether a wombat is a cat…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the classic Western puzzle — does a tree…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute session, Ven Jampa Gendun opens with…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the vivid example of hearing the word "pot"…