Good Karma: The importance of making offerings
Good Karma 25
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Good Karma Annual Retreat 
May 25, 2025 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.
- Our ability to change
- Questions and answers:
- Cultivating equanimity
- Continuing with verse 36
- Making offerings to fields of compassion and merit
- Verse 37: Being ugly and mistreated
- Verse 38: When attachment and anger erupt no matter what we do
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.
