Putting bodhicitta into practice
Seven Point Mind Training by Ven Sangye Khadro – Part 4
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Seven-point Mind Training 
Aug 2, 2020 Part of a series of 12 teachings by Venerable Sangye Khadro given online at Amitabha Buddhist Centre from July to September 2020.
- Guided meditation on equalizing and exchanging self and others
- Brief introduction to the practice of taking and giving (tonglen)
- Contemplating compassion and taking on the suffering of others
- Contemplating loving kindness and giving away happiness to others
- Key benefit of tonglen: it gradually destroys our self-centeredness
- How to practice giving
- Guided meditation on offering the four elements of our body
- What can be given?
- Our body
- Our possessions
- Our virtues and merits
- How to practice taking
- What can be taken?
- Our own sufferings and problems
- The sufferings of all sentient beings of the six realms of samsaric rebirth
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974, and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Ven. Thubten Chodron. Ven. Sangye Khadro took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. She has been resident teacher at the FPMT centre in Denmark since 2016, and from 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable Sangye Khadro has authored several books, including the best-selling How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing, which has been translated into eight languages. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.
