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Heart advice for dealing with difficulties

Heart advice for dealing with difficulties

A talk based on the book Don’t Believe Everything You Think given at the Nalanda Buddhist Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • Using the mind training teachings to work with difficulties
  • Cultivating compassion for those who steal from us
  • Having compassion for those who harm us
  • Maintaining a loving mind for those who try to ruin our reputation
  • Learning humility from those who disparage us
  • Cherishing those who betray our trust
  • Remaining humble when we have worldly success
  • Subduing the enemy of our own anger

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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.