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“Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature”: The mind’s potential
Nirvana is not a place but a state of mind attained by internal transformation. The fact that we have buddha nature allows us to go from samsara ...
New! “The Compassionate Kitchen”
How eating and activities related to it—preparing food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up—can wake us up and increase our kindness and care for others.
Getting started
A quick guide to getting started with using ThubtenChodron.org.
Cultivating Amitabha’s attitude
Bringing the mind in line with Amitabha’s way of thinking means cultivating an attitude that cherishes all living beings and generating love and compassion.
What is it like to be patient?
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues on Verse 27 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas,” comparing patience versus anger, and feeling the difference between them.
What exactly is ethics?
How ethics is the virtuous thought to abandon both harming others and the thoughts that are the basis of harming them.
The seven jewels of the aryas: Cultivating wisdom
Discussing the seventh jewel of the aryas, wisdom, and the three ways we can develop it.
Decreasing miserliness and increasing generosity
Venerable Sangye Khadro explains Verse 25 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas.” She talks about generosity and its joyous side effects.
The bodhisattva’s job is to wake us up
Venerable Sangye Khadro explains Verse 24 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas.” She talks about things being like an illusion, like a dream.
The seven jewels of the aryas: Personal integrity
How to increase your integrity and consideration for others, considering what kind of person we want to be.
Misperception of how things appear
Venerable Sangye Khadro explains Verse 23 of the “37 Practices of Bodhisattvas.” Explaining emptiness and our misperception of how we apprehend things.
The three purposes of debate
Teaching on the three purposes of debate, and beginning Chapter 20 on definitions, divisions and illustrations.
The seven jewels of the aryas: Consideration for self and others
Personal integrity and consideration for others, the fifth and sixth jewels of the aryas.