Renouncing worldly life
Good Karma 28
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. Venerable Chodron introduces the 2026 retreat and discusses verses 45 and 46 during the weekly teaching on Following in the Buddha's Footsteps that you can find here.
- Seeing illness as purification
- Verse 47: Renouncing worldly life
- Verse 48: Seizing the enemy
- Identifying self-grasping ignorance and self-centeredness
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.
