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.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 5: Verses 491-492
Explanation of the qualities by which one can identify a suitable spiritual mentor, and how…
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Do I really want to change?
Real change requires effort, not just an intellectual understanding of the situation.
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Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view…
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Questioning appearances
Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union…
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Existence of the “I”
Reviewing the four-point analysis of the emptiness of the self and teaching on coarse and…
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Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 13-18
Teaching on the auxiliary bodhisattva precepts related to the perfections of ethical conduct and fortitude.
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Chapter 5: Verses 488-491
Teaching on the last section of this text, 'Closing Words of Advice.' Explanation of four…
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It’s never hopeless
A response to a student's email about how to find hope and wisdom in times…
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Auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints 7-12
Teaching on the auxiliary bodhisattva ethical restraints focusing on those which aid the perfection of…
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Chapter 5: Verses 484-489
A comical explanation of the taking-and-giving meditation and beginning to teach on the last section…
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