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 Dealing with difficult people
We can change our way of relating to people we find difficult by considering that…
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Virtuous activities and thoughts
How we should not cease doing virtuous activities of body, speech and mind and why…
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Reasonable self-evaluation
We can learn to evaluate ourselves by examining our motivations and actions so that we…
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Praise and criticism
If criticism is valid, why get angry? We can simply admit our mistakes and do…
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Attachment to reputation
Attachment to reputation and anger at criticism go hand in hand. In meditation we need…
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Thinking about emptiness
The wisdom realizing emptiness has the ability to cut the root of suffering once and…
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Working on our attachments
We don't need to keep trying new things in order to see how attachment works.…
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Making decisions
Are chocolate brownies inherently delicious? An analysis of the grasping nature of our minds.
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Questioning our perceptions
An explanation of how emptiness and dependent arising do not contradict each other.
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Cultivating compassion
Creating conditions beneficial to practice, cultivating compassion without bias, and intellectual versus emotional compassion.
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Negating inherent existence
The lack of inherent existence does not mean the same as non-existence. While things do…
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