Venerable Thubten Jigme
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took sramanerika and sikasamana vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. She received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan in 2011. Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme (then Dianne Pratt) worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings. At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme is the Guest Master, manages the prison outreach program and oversees the video program.
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Venerable Thubten Jigme Meditation on compassion as the antidote to the crit...
A guided meditation on replacing a judgmental attitude with compassion.
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Review of Chapter Six: Verses 36-40
Developing fortitude in the face of harm and hardship using thought transformation verses.
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Meditation on working with fear and anger
A guided meditation on how to work with fear and anger to respond more effectively…
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Meditation on mind as the source of happiness and pain
Guided meditation on how emotions and attitudes create our experience.
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End-of-life care
How can we approach the difficult process of making end-of-life care decisions regarding loved ones?
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Practicing Dharma with mental illness
Mental illness need not be an obstacle to practicing the Dharma.
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Review of the 10 nonvirtuous actions
Reviewing Chapter 11, describing the ten nonvirtuous actions, factors that makes karma heavy and effect…
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Review of Chapter 5
Reviewing Chapter 5, leading a discussion on how to develop trust and respect towards spiritual…
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Meditation on the inevitability of death
A guided meditation on the first three points in the nine-point meditation on death focusing…
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Love and compassion
Developing love and compassion, steps four and five of the seven-point instruction to cultivate altruism,…
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Review of the nature of mind
Venerable Thubten Jigme leads a review on the nature of mind and leads meditations on…
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Mind is the source of happiness
Venerable Thubten Jigme reviews the first chapter, focusing on understanding how the mind is the…
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