Bodhicitta and working with adversity
04 Seven-point mind training
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Seven-point Mind Training 
Mar 9, 2025 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.
- The benefits of conventional bodhicitta
- Examples of the five degenerations
- Meditating on the kindness of all, including our enemies
- Banish the self-centered thought
- Self-centeredness vs. self-cherishing
- Reflecting on karma and its results
- Having the power to calm our own minds
- Taking and giving meditation
- Questions and answers
- Why our times are degenerate although the Buddha has taught
- Avoiding falling to nihilism when meditating on emptiness
- Cultivating “engaged” emptiness in conjunction with compassion
- Balancing our outer and inner response to degenerate times
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.
