Vajrasattva practice and the four opponent powers
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat 2020-21 
Dec 31, 2020 Part of a series of talks given during the Vajrasattva New Year's Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2020-21. The retreat was offered as an online event.
- Motivation for the retreat
- The purpose of Vajrasattva practice
- Three ways to view Vajrasattva
- The visualization of Vajrasattva
- The four opponent powers
- Reliance
- Regret
- Remedial action
- Resolving not to do the action again
- Reciting the mantra
Venerable Thubten Chonyi
Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.
