Meditation on the eight worldly concerns
A guided meditation on the attachments and aversions that distract us and take us away from what is meaningful in life.
- Setting the motivation for the meditation
- five minute meditation on the breath
- Analytic meditation on the eight worldly concerns
Meditation on the eight worldly concerns (download)
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.