Unlocking your potential
Part of a series of talks on the four thoughts that turn the mind given at the Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore.
- Overview of the book Unlocking Your Potential
- Different ways of seeing impermanence
- Karma and its effects
- Intention determines virtue and nonvirtue
- The destructive actions to abandon
- Purification of negative karma
- The factors that make an action heavy
- Questions
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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.