Blog

Latest Posts

View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.

Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Refuge guidelines and karma

Guidelines for practicing refuge in daily life. The four general characteristics of karma and purification…

View Post
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 279-283

How to examine the teachings to determine if they are valid, and how to look…

View Post
Contentment and Happiness

The formula for happiness

In searching for happiness we need to cultivate our ability to love people more openly,…

View Post
On Working with Afflictions

It comes from our mind

A 17-year-old student from Singapore shares his insights on working with anger.

View Post
Contentment and Happiness

The love of money

How attachment to wealth breeds anxiety and dissatisfaction, and how contentment with what we have…

View Post
Two men hugging.
On Cultivating Virtue

Be there for the right reasons

The motives behind your actions are important. Are you motivated by your ego? Buddhism teaches…

View Post
Contentment and Happiness

Love people, not pleasure

In the search for happiness, attachment to fame and reputation is a major cause of…

View Post
Don't Believe Everything You Think

Ending the pity party

How to work with the mind that wants to wallow in self-pity. We can use…

View Post
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Dharma and Sangha Jewels in depth

The ultimate and conventional Dharma and Sangha Jewels. The Pali and Sanskrit traditions' view of…

View Post
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 185-200

Geshe Thabkhe concludes the teachings on making the mindstream receptive to the development of spiritual…

View Post
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 178-184

Geshe Thabkhe teaches on methods to eliminate disturbing emotions and talks about how they can…

View Post
Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 7-8: Verses 171-177

Geshe Thabkhe teaches on inappropriateness of accumulating merit for higher rebirths in cyclic existence and…

View Post