Blog
Latest Posts
View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.
Venerable Thubten Chodron Transforming anxiety and depression in a rapidly cha...
Discussion of the source of anxiety and related emotions and some practical antidotes to counteract…
View Post
The kindness of enemies
How those who harm us can help us overcome anger, resentment, and grudges.
View Post
-
Rashika Stephens - Dec 3, 2022
Revoking anger’s “Get out of trouble free” card
Anger can make us impulsive, making us feel out of control. A simple meditation shows…
View Post
Bhikshuni Thubten Jampa Some thoughts on the practice of gratitude
As His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we become happier by becoming kinder.
View Post
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe We create the causes for joy and sorrow
Teaching on how we are responsible for creating the causes for joy and sorrow by…
View Post
The kindness of others
Continued explanation of the nine-point meditation on equalizing self and others with the three points…
View Post
How to seek reality by means of dependent arising
The Buddha’s motivation for teaching dependent origination, the two kinds of ignorance, and the instinctual…
View Post
We are all equal
Explanation of the first three points of the nine-point meditation on equalizing self and others.
View Post
Wrong views of emptiness
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe outlines and refutes various misinterpretations of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness.
View Post
Generosity of the heart
How to cultivate the four brahmaviharas or divine abodes of love, compassion, empathetic joy, and…
View Post
Empathic distress
How compassion can fall into empathic distress, or compassion fatigue, when our focus turns from…
View Post