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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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Parting from the Four Clingings

Repaying the kindness of others

The limitations of personal liberation and the happiness of working for the benefit of others.

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Samsara is not a vacation

Seeing the kindness of others motivates us to work towards liberation for their benefit.

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Keeping a long-term perspective

It's critical that we keep a long-term motivation instead of the happiness of this life…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Tweaking samsara is not enough

Four distorted ways of thinking that prevent us from seeking lasting happiness.

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Working with Emotions

Buddhist wisdom for managing our emotions

How disturbing emotions keep us bound in samsara and two methods for managing anger.

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Ethics in the Modern World

Cultivating inner peace

How transforming our mind enables us to create peace in a chaotic world.

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Working with Anger

Anger, imputations and assumptions

We impute meaning on things and expect others to agree without clarifying.

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Working with Anger

Anger and the self-centered mind

How to oppose the self-centered mind and more techniques for dealing with anger.

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Working with Anger

Contemplating the faults of anger

Two faults of anger to contemplate and why Buddhahood depends on even cockroaches.

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Working with Anger

Anger and attachment are equally unhelpful

How anger and attachment cause us to exaggerate and project qualities onto people and things.

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On Refuge and Bodhicitta

Dharma medicine for these times

Cultivating compassion in politically turbulent times.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The stages of the path within our reach in the West

How the three principal aspects of the path lead to happiness for ourselves and others.

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