Review of Chapter 7: Counteracting desire
Review of Chapter 7: Counteracting desire
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas 
Oct 24, 2013 The teachings on Chapter 7 of Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way explore the reasons and methods for giving up attachment to the fleeting pleasures of cyclic existence.
- Giving up clinging to objects of enjoyment
- Using Aryadeva’s verses and other texts to understand how attachment causes dissatisfaction and leads to future suffering
- How to counteract desire through reflection and meditation
25 Aryadeva’s 400 Stanzas: Attachment and its antidotes (download)
Venerable Thubten Chonyi
Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.
