Blog
Latest Posts
View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.
Venerable Thubten Chodron Calm abiding review
A review on how to choose the object of meditation and how to cultivate mindfulness…
View Post
Teaching in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
A 16-city teaching tour in Eastern Europe in 1994 reveals the optimism and difficulties experienced…
View Post
Forgetting the object of meditation
Forgetting the object of meditation as an obstacle to calm abiding and mindfulness as its…
View Post
Objects of meditation and deterrents
Continuing to look at objects of calm-abiding meditation and the first of the five deterrents:…
View Post
Objects of meditation
Examining the various objects of calm abiding meditation taught by the Buddha.
View Post
Preparing for calm abiding meditation
Establishing the six conducive conditions for calm abiding meditation and advice on doing retreat.
View Post
Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, Part 2
Part 2 of Venerable Thubten Chodron's explanation of the practice of Guru Yoga.
View Post
The four factors of gathering disciples
The four ways of gathering disciples, also know as the four ways to ripen others'…
View Post
Training in calm abiding
Introduction to the source of the teachings on calm abiding, its etymology, definition and explanation,…
View Post
Ripening the minds of others
What it means for a spiritual mentor to ripen the mind of the sentient being.
View Post
Perfections of concentration and wisdom
Examining the three types of meditative stabilization and the four types of wisdom.
View Post
Complementary nature of the perfections
Examining how each of the six far-reaching practices work together to complement and support each…
View Post