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Teachings in USA & Asia: Winter 2018
Venerable Chodron's travel teaching schedule from November to December 2018.
New! The Foundation of Buddhist Practice
Publication of Volume 2 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion
Getting started
A quick guide to getting started with using ThubtenChodron.org.
The Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from a prison inmate for one of the Abbey’s volunteers.
“An Open-Hearted Life”: The power of optimism and types of emotion
How an optimistic attitude is important in maintaining compassion. A look at different ways to understand, and work with, our emotions.
Body, mind, rebirth and self
Continuing Chapter 2 and covering the section “Body, Mind, Rebirth and Self.”
Nonassociated compositional factors
Reviewing the Mental Consciousness section and covering the sections on Sense Consciousnesses and Nonassociated Composition Factors.
The joy of serving sentient beings
How compassion and benefiting others benefits ourselves and others now and in the future. Reflections to develop compassion and bodhicitta.
Reaching out with the Dharma
Ways in which we can put our meditations on equanimity into practice to benefit others.
Review night
Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a basic review of the divisions of existents.
Seeking a qualified spiritual teacher to guide us
How to relate to a spiritual mentor.
The five faults and eight antidotes
How to identify the five faults that arise when doing concentration meditation, and how to apply the eight antidotes to them.
Restlessness, regret, and doubt
How to identify and apply antidotes to the hindrances of restlessness, regret, and deluded doubt.
