Who’s responsible for my suffering?
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Contentment and Happiness 
May 30, 2021 An online talk hosted by the Buddhist Channel on YouTube
- Identifying the real cause of our problems
- Virtuous actions lead to positive results and nonvirtuous actions lead to suffering
- Changing our experience by changing how we think, speak, and act
- If we change our motivation we can change our experiences
- To help others and ourselves, we must think, speak, and act virtuously
- True happiness is a result of working for the benefit of others
- A daily practice to help us generate a positive motivation for the day
- We can purify past destructive actions using the four opponent powers
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.
