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 Verse 35-1: Seeing a dispute
Remaining impartial, calm, and competent in the midst of dispute.
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Seeing the kindness of our parents
The first two of the seven points of the cause and effect method of generating…
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Practicing the Dharma
In this session discussion revolves around working with illness and attachment, observing and working with…
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Verse 34-7: What the mind is
Understanding what the mind is in order to eliminate our wrong views.
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Verse 34-6: Three Jewels, rebirth, and karma
Focusing on the non-belief in the existence of the Three Jewels, the law of karma…
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Verse 34-5: Afflicted views
Being unkind to our own wrong views and an explanation of the afflicted views according…
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Verse 34-4: How we repay others’ kindness
Training our minds to see the kindness of others, and reciprocating that kindness.
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Verse 34-3: Delight in giving
Taking a look at the idea of fairness and what it means to be taken…
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Verse 34-2: Making offerings
Repaying the kindness of the Three Jewels by making offerings, and giving with a sincere…
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Advantages of bodhicitta
The two kinds of bodhisattvas, the accumulation of merit, and the need to develop wisdom…
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Verse 34-1: Unkind to wrong views
How to think when we see other people's kindness that is not reciprocated.
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Dealing with afflictions and illness
Bringing poor health into the path and the practice, and working with attachment and feelings…
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