Attachment and happiness
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Contentment and Happiness 
Dec 10, 2025 A talk with a question and answer session for students in Singapore.
- Attachment leads to frustration and unhappiness
- Attachment and unrealistic expectations
- How we impute happiness onto objects even though they don’t have it
- Where does happiness come from, the object or our mind?
- Rejoicing in the merit of others is a source of happiness
- Nagarjuna’s advice to a king on finding happiness
Attachment and happiness (download)
- Questions and answers
- How can we overcome counterproductive mental habits?
- How can young people overcome hopelessness and depression?
- How can we apply Buddhist values and philosophy in the later stages of life?
- Being generous before you die to decrease attachment
- How does merit go from one life to another?
- Do we have a permanent, personal identity?
Attachment and happiness—questions and answers (download)
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.
