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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Luis - Oct 7, 2018
Luis Return to reality: Love and hate
Seemingly contradictory feelings can lead to the same prison, a prison of ignorance.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Working with unwanted thoughts and emotions
How we can work over time to replace troublesome thoughts and emotions with more compassionate…
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Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
Comparing the changes of the weather to our mood swings.
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Mind and emotions
Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.
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Proving mutual inclusion
Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and…
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How to recognize or identify our afflictions
How the body and mind give us clues when afflictions are at play.
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How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective...
Bringing our attention to the role of intoxicants in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
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Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
Encouraging us to be mindful of the afflictions playing in the background of our mind.
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The possibility of ending duhkha
Covering the sections "Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels" and "The Possibility of Ending Duhkha."
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Holding others as supreme
The second verse of the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation," in connection with the developments…
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Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion
Covering the sections “Proving Four Possibilities” and “Proving Mutual Exclusion.”
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Tanya Lasuk
- Sep 23, 2018
The Teddy Bear Project
A surprise gift from an incarcerated person for one of the Abbey's volunteers.
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