Practices before serenity meditation
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Cultivating Concentration Retreat 2010 
Sep 4, 2010 Part of a series of teachings given during the Developing Meditative Concentration Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2010.
- Prior to meditation
- Take refuge and generate bodhicitta
- Preliminary practices
- Relax body and mind
- Visualizing the Buddha
- Two main mental factors of concentration
- Mindfulness
- Introspective awareness
- Working on hindrances to the meditation
- Questions and answers
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.
