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Developing inner peace through mindfulness

Creating Peace in a Chaotic World with Venerable Sangye Khadro – Session 1

Part of a series of talks given to students of Amitabha Buddhist Centre in late 2021.

  • What is peace?
  • Cultivating inner peace to achieve peace around us
  • Transforming negative states of mind
  • Increasing resilience through mindfulness
  • Breathing techniques for calming emotions
  • Question and answers
    • Recalling breathing techniques when facing problems
    • Helping loved ones who are sick achieve peace of mind
    • Transforming problems into practice through patience
    • Relieving stress by sharing about our problems
    • Developing compassion towards those who harm us

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.