How to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and counteracting the eight dangers
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Green Tara 
Nov 12, 2023 A talk with a question and answer session given at the Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore. The talk refers to the Green Tara sadhana with the Eight Dangers.
- Cultivating the mind that cherishes others
- Recognizing how our mind creates our happiness and suffering
- Tara’s real power is to help us change our outlook
- Overview of the Green Tara sadhana
- Requesting protection from the eight dangers
- The lion of conceit
- The elephant of ignorance
- The fire of anger
- The snake of jealousy
- The thieves of wrong views
- The chain of miserliness
- The flood of attachment
- The demon of doubt
How to free your mind: The Tara sadhana and counteracting the eight dangers (download)
- Questions and answers
- Does very minor anger destroy virtue or only strong anger?
- How can people of different religions benefit from Buddhist ideas and techniques?
- Can you explain patience as the antidote to anger?
- How can I practice the antidotes to anger when I’m not angry?
- The wisdom and devotional practices go together to help us make progress
- How can a long-term addict move away from addiction?
- Anger and arrogance
- What is the solution to decluttering?
- How can we prevent anger and moral outrage from subsuming us?
- Does praise increase ego or self-confidence?
How to free your mind: Question and answer session (download)
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.
