Heart Sutra: Mind-only interpretation of emptiness
06 The Heart Sutra
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Wisdom 
Jan 14, 2025 
A series of teachings based on Essence of the Heart Sutra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services
- Review of the two types of selflessness
- Examining how things really exist versus how they appear
- Strong emotional reactions help us to investigate the self
- Our perception is based on latencies on our mindstreams
- The Cittamatra view of how things exist
- Three principal natures from the Sutra Unraveling the Thought
- The difference between definitive and provisional teachings
- The view of a foundational consciousness
- Questions and answers
- Can you review the imaginary nature of phenomena again?
- What does “non-dual” mean to the Cittamatra school?
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.
