Tweaking samsara is not enough
01 Parting from the Four Clingings (2025)
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Parting from the Four Clingings 
Apr 12, 2025 A teaching on Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen’s "Song of Experience on Mind Training and the View" for the Longku Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Meditation
- Our normal view of life and why it’s unsatisfactory
- How our “rules for the universe” prevent happiness
- The problem with clinging to the happiness of just this life
- Why a good rebirth will not lead to lasting happiness
- Four distorted ways of thinking that chain us to samsara
Part 2 of these teachings:
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.
