Getting unstuck from attachment and anger

Part of a series of teachings given during the Developing Meditative Concentration Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2017.

  • Being honest about our goals in spiritual practice
  • Understanding how we are conditioned phenomena
  • Mind is the source of happiness and suffering
  • Practicing compassion with balance
  • Master Zhiyi on the five hindrances
  • Sensual desire
  • Malice
  • 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.