Transforming adverse circumstances
02 Seven-point mind training
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Seven-point Mind Training 
Sep 8, 2024 Teachings on the seven-point mind training hosted online by Dharmakaya Buddhist Center in Reno, Nevada. The root text is published in Advice from a Spiritual Friend.
- Challenging our habitual responses to suffering
- Working with the self-centered thought
- How to do the taking-and-giving meditation
- Three objects, three poisons, and three sources of virtue
- Third, transform adverse circumstances into the path to awakening
- Questions and answers
- 1000-armed Chenrezig meditation
- Visualizing the self-centered thought
- How to give criticism to the self-centered thought
- Wishing for sentient beings to encounter the Dharma
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.
