Challenging self view

Challenging self view

Part of a series of teachings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s book titled How to See Yourself as You Really Are given during a weekend retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2016.

  • Appreciating and repaying the kindness of sentient beings
  • Challenging our self-centered view while recognizing our Buddha potential
  • The three conditions that show things exist
  • False appearances versus erroneous perception
  • Analyzing the relationship between the person and the aggregates
  • Refuting the inherent meaning that we impute to objects

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.