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Responsibility versus obligation

Responsibility versus obligation

Part of a series of talks given during the annual Young Adult Week program at Sravasti Abbey in 2012.

  • Difference between responsibility and obligation
  • Depends on our attitude
  • Self-interest and its effect on how we think about a situation
  • We have a choice

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.