Developing inner peace through focus
Creating Peace in a Chaotic World with Venerable Sangye Khadro – Session 3
Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Working with Emotions 
Dec 4, 2021 Part of a series of talks given to students of Amitabha Buddhist Centre in late 2021.
- Reflection on human afflictions in samsara
- Importance of positive thinking for physical and mental wellbeing
- Meditation on living beings’ innate desire for happiness
- Methods for reducing negative thoughts
- Focusing on your breath to become more calm and attentive
- Question and answers
- Engaging in Dharma practice with time constraints
- Reducing negative thoughts by focusing on your breath
- How focusing on your breath transforms the mind
- Logical sequence of the four immeasurables
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.
