Banishing bad habits
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Don't Believe Everything You Think 
Jul 10, 2016 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.
Habitual disturbing emotions are hard to stop through counteractions.
Armed with antidotes, the guards of mindfulness and mental alertness
Destroy disturbing emotions like attachment
At once, as soon as they arise—
This is the practice of Bodhisattvas.
- Why we should work on the most prominent of our disturbing emotions
- The downside to the disturbing emotions
- How mindfulness and introspective awareness help us with our disturbing emotions
- When the disturbing emotions are small it’s easier to apply the antidote
- If we use the antidotes, we can act calmly and constructively in conflicts
SDD 35: Banishing bad habits (download)
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.
