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Applying thought training in daily life

Applying thought training in daily life

Part of a series of short Bodhisattva’s Breakfast Corner talks on transforming adversity into the path.

  • Every circumstance as an opportunity to cultivate bodhicitta
  • Taking what we learn in meditation and using it throughout the day
  • Community life as a valuable tool for taming the mind
  • Using our unhappiness to develop renunciation

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.