Samsara is not a vacation
03 Parting from the Four Clingings (2025)
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Parting from the Four Clingings 
Apr 13, 2025 A teaching on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen’s "Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View" for the Longku Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Meditation
- How training ourselves to see kindness changes us
- Two ways of feeling bad: guilt versus regret
- Compassion for people in prison
- How holding grudges causes suffering
- Reflecting on the defects of cyclic existence
Part 4 of these teachings:
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.
