Thubten Jampel
Born in 1984, Carl Willmott III—now Thubten Jampel—came to the Abbey in May 2007. He met Venerable Chodron in 2006 while she was giving a teaching at Airway Heights Correction Center. He took refuge and the five precepts in August of 2007 after participating in Exploring Monastic Life, an annual program at Sravasti Abbey. He took the eight anagarika precepts in February of 2008 and ordained in September 2008. He has returned to lay life.
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Thubten Jampel How spirituality changed my life
A formerly incarcerated person discusses his path to spirituality, before and after prison.
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Friendship
The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…
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Cultivating contentment
How to practice contentment. Letting go of craving and seeing that what we have is…
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Being dispassionate toward perception
The benefit of being dispassionate toward sense pleasures and material things.
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Review: Precepts of mind training
How we can apply the mind training slogans during our daily activities and interactions.
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Review: Who to cherish
A review of the disadvantages of the self-centered thought and the benefits of cherishing others.
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