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Grateful mind, happy mind

Grateful mind, happy mind

Part of a series of meditations appearing on the Daily Dharma Gathering, a cloud-based meditation group that features live-streamed meditations by a rich spectrum of Buddhist teachers.

  • Recognizing our habitual tendency to be dissatisfied
  • Not judging ourselves when we recognize this habit
  • How to meditate to transform our discontented mind
  • How practicing gratitude makes us happy

Guided meditation: Grateful mind, happy mind (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.