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

Imagining your death
The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the…
View Post
Nine-point death meditation
By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we…
View Post
Rarity of a precious human rebirth
Contemplating the rarity of a precious human life complete with both the ability and the…
View Post
Precious human rebirth
How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.
View Post
Extraordinary aspiration: The seven-limb practice
A powerful practice from the King of Prayers that can be done daily to purify…
View Post
The eight worldly concerns
How to work with mental obstacles that keep us from practicing the Dharma.
View Post
Renunciation
We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic…
View Post
Introduction to the seven-limb practice
Seven ways to purify the mind and to accumulate merit, the purpose and ways of…
View Post
The preliminaries
How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will…
View Post
Interfaith philosophies
Clarifying the various Buddhist views on what the present and future lives mean.
View Post
The second Gethsemani Encounter
Thoughts on different theological views of religious institutions.
View Post