Cutting through the mundane mind

Manjushri Retreat (2022) - Session 7

Part of a series of talks given during the Manjushri Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2022.

  • Experimenting with different ways to transform the mind
  • Questions and answers
    • How does visualizing bodies, implements, and mantras absorbing into our body increase our wisdom?
    • Is great compassion a primary main mind like bodhicitta?
    • How does the idea of the mind only having one object at a time work with having spontaneous bodhicitta?
    • Does this primary mind of bodhicitta only arise when you have the object of sentient beings?
  • How to help sentient beings
  • Further explanation of the practice of mantra recitation
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.

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