Applying Buddhist logic in meditation
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Buddhist Worldview 
Sep 23, 2023 - When we skip over learning reasoning and logic for practices that make us feel good, we get confused
- Monastic study is geared toward attaining awakening
- Meditation is not clearing your mind of thoughts
- Overview of traditional Tibetan monastic education
- How things arise from causes and applying that to your life
- Learning about karma allows us to create the causes for the kind of future we want to have
- How to meditate on this teaching
- Qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama that Venerable Chodron admires
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.
