Good and bad retreat days

Good and bad retreat days

These short Bodhisattva’s Breakfast Corner talks were given during the Four Establishments of Mindfulness Winter Retreat in 2013. More extensive teachings on the establishments of mindfulness can be found here.

  • Learning to re-evaluate the good and bad days we have in retreat
  • Allowing the bad days to uncover how our self-centeredness makes us miserable
  • Applying the antidotes to self-centeredness through meditation
  • How working with the mind enables us to transform a bad day into a good one

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.