Friendship
Thubten Jampel 
Taming the Mind 
May 2, 2010 Part of a series of talks based on Taming the Mind given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day from March 2009 to December 2011.
- Qualities of good friends and false friends
- The importance of cultivating positive relationships
- How we can love others without being attached to them
Thubten Jampel
Born in 1984, Carl Willmott III—now Thubten Jampel—came to the Abbey in May 2007. He met Venerable Chodron in 2006 while she was giving a teaching at Airway Heights Correction Center. He took refuge and the five precepts in August of 2007 after participating in Exploring Monastic Life, an annual program at Sravasti Abbey. He took the eight anagarika precepts in February of 2008 and ordained in September 2008. He has returned to lay life.
