Suffering is like a dream
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
Don't Believe Everything You Think 
Jun 21, 2015 A series of talks based on Don't Believe Everything You Think given at Sravasti Abbey’s monthly Sharing the Dharma Day starting in March 2013. The book is a commentary on The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas.
All forms of suffering are like a child’s death in a dream.
Holding illusory appearances to be true makes you weary.
Therefore when you meet with disagreeable circumstances,
See them as illusory—
This is the practice of Bodhisattvas.
- We are all looking for stability and security and can’t find it
- The way we see things and people causes us pain
- We have to look at the unsatisfactory nature of our experience and the causes in order to do something about it
- How the four distorted ways of looking at things and persons cause dukkha
- What it means to look at things as illusory
SDD 24: Suffering is like a dream (download)
Venerable Thubten Chonyi
Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.
