Seize the enemy!
Good Karma 29
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Good Karma Annual Retreat 
May 23, 2026 Part of a series of talks given during the annual Memorial Day weekend retreat based on the book Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering, a commentary on "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons" by Indian sage Dharmarakshita
- Questions and answers
- How to purify a great amount of negative karma
- Can we eliminate others’ destructive karma?
- Can we take refuge and precepts again?
- Verse 48, continued
- Giving our suffering to the self-centered thought
- Verse 49: Calling upon Yamantaka
- Provisional and definitive aspects of Yamantaka
- How Yamantaka communicates with us
- Four opponent powers
- Weapon of four actions
The next talk in this series:
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.
