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Building confidence to live your life to the fullest

Building confidence to live your life to the fullest

A talk given at the Buddhist Congress Centre in Singapore.

  • The difference between real self-confidence and pride
  • Increaseing self-awareness through mindfulness and introspective awareness
  • Changing the habitual ways we react to others
  • How anger and arrogance get in the way of connecting with others
  • Being courageous in opposing our negative habits
  • Questions
    • Are there antidotes to the attachment of romantic love?
    • How do you reconcile a child having a separate mind yet the DNA of the parents?
    • How can I deal with anxiety due to wanting to perform well at work?

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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.