How to listen to teachings
Lam Rim: Study, reflect, meditate with Ven. Sangye Khadro – Session 2
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience 
Apr 8, 2021 Part of a series of online teachings hosted by Thubten Norbu Ling Center in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
- A guided meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha
- The root text contains both sutra and tantra teachings
- Listening to teachings with an analytical mind
- The analogy of the three cups
- The different types of motivation
- Viewing the mind as afflicted or sick
- Relying on a spiritual teacher or “Guru devotion”
- The six preliminary practices
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.
