Commitments and instructions of mind training
06 Seven-point mind training
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Seven-point Mind Training 
Mar 16, 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.
- Seeing how we have contradictory attributes
- Fifth point: The measure of having transformed one’s thoughts
- Having more happy thoughts, even when we’re criticized
- Archetypes of great practitioners and their reversal
- Less distraction in meditation and when relating to others
- Sixth point: The commitments of thought training
- Seventh point: The instructions of thought training
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.
