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Creating habits for happiness

Creating habits for happiness

A talk given at the Pu Ai Community Service Centre in Penang, Malaysia.

  • The habit of waking up with a positive motivation
  • Recalling our motivation throughout the day
  • Training your mind to see others as kind
  • Creating the causes for happy family relationships
  • Questions and answers
    • How can one overcome the habit of anger?
    • If you take the five precepts can you eat meat? drink alcohol?

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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.