Thought Transformation
Rinpoche dictated the following when he was preparing for a talk in Colorado in 2010, however, in the end he didn’t use this material.
Welcome to all the people (distinguished guests),
I am very happy to be here to meet all my brothers and sisters and to share peace and happiness from Buddhism, from my tiny bit of understanding of Buddhism.
The subject is thought transformation and the need to practice this according to what the kind and compassionate Shakyamuni Buddha taught. This is the most profound Buddhist science of the mind, deep like the Pacific Ocean and extensive like space.
Why should we apply this practice and take this treatment?
By practicing thought transformation, our suffering is transformed into happiness immediately, bringing peace and happiness, and release from the prison of self-cherishing thought. We are released from the prison of the selfish mind and other delusions, the obscuring disturbing negative thoughts and wrong concepts, such as ignorance, anger and attachment.
We receive incredible freedom, peace and happiness; freedom from being constantly tortured by the negative thoughts and being totally cheated by the hallucinated thoughts. We receive peace and happiness, not only from moment- to-moment, but also in our day-to-day life.
We receive not only long-term happiness and peace in our future lives, but we also achieve ultimate happiness, the total cessation of all the sufferings, including the dissatisfaction of sickness and old age, and the cycle of death and rebirth We cease the cause of suffering, which is not external, only internal —karma, through our actions, and delusion, the obscuring, disturbing negative attitude.
We also receive ultimate happiness, great liberation—the non-abiding sorrowless state, the fully awakened state.