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Rejuvenate your life

Rejuvenate your life

A talk given at the Penang Bodhi Heart Sanctuary in Penang, Malaysia.

  • Being clear about our spiritual direction and motivation
  • The four immeasurables open our heart to everybody
  • Short meditation on freeing our minds from anger
  • We want happiness but we don’t know the real causes of happiness
  • The two ways we create happiness and suffering
    • Karma—planting the seeds for your experience
    • How we look at a situation creates our experience
  • Questions and answers
    • Why is there a mantra that is said to bring wealth?
    • Can you speak about tough love?
    • How can we deal with anxiety?

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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.