A personal study of grief and some antidotes
08 White Tara Grief and Resilience Retreat (2024)
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
White Tara Grief and Resilience Retreat 2024 with Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Jul 2, 2024 Part of a series of teachings given during the White Tara weeklong retreat held at Sravasti Abbey in 2024.
- A personal reflection on grief
- Definitions of grief
- The four wrong conceptions
- Antidotes
- Meditation on impermanence
- Acceptance and normalizing the situation
- Rejoicing in the relationship
- Letting grief fuel our renunciation
- Letting grief grow our compassion and bodhicitta motivation
- Offering our loved one to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
- Engaging in virtuous actions on behalf of our loved one
- Writing to our loved one with gratitude and forgiveness
- Questions and answers
Venerable Thubten Chonyi
Ven. Thubten Chonyi is a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has studied with Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Ven. Thubten Chodron since 1996. She lives and trains at the Abbey, where she received novice ordination in 2008. She took full ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Ven. Chonyi regularly teaches Buddhism and meditation at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane and, occasionally, in other locations as well.
