Transforming adverse circumstances

Teachings on the seven-point mind training hosted online by Dharmakaya Buddhist Center in Reno, Nevada in September 2024.

  • Challenging our habitual responses to suffering
  • Working with the self-centered thought
  • How to do the taking-and-giving meditation
  • Three objects, three poisons, and three sources of virtue
  • Third, transform adverse circumstances into the path to awakening
  • Questions and answers
    • 1000-armed Chenrezig meditation
    • Visualizing the self-centered thought
    • How to give criticism to the self-centered thought
    • Wishing for sentient beings to encounter the Dharma


The first teaching in this series:

The foundation of mind training

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.