Preliminaries, bodhicitta, and transforming adversity
01 The Five Forces Retreat (2026)
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Seven-point Mind Training 
Sep 5, 2026 This teaching is part of the 2026 retreat series The Five Forces: Practices for a Lifetime, featuring teachings on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa’s Seven-point Mind Training. A PDF of the root text is available here.
- Overview of the seven-point mind training
1. Summary of the preliminaries: The Buddhist worldview
2. Summary of the main practice: How the self-centered thought makes us suffer
3. Seeing everything that happens as conducive to our spiritual development- Cultivating love and compassion for all beings
- Questions and answers
- Is it possible for this to be my first life?
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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.
