Don't Believe Everything You Think

Teachings by Venerable Thubten Chodron based on the book “Don't Believe Everything You Think.”

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Transforming suffering

Looking at our reactions when we face adversity, and how we can transform pain and…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Facing blame

Recognizing attachment to reputation and examining the mind's reaction when it is threatened.

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Working with criticism

How to see those who criticize us and challenge us as teachers who point out…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Betrayal

We can see those who betray us as overwhelmed by afflictions and suffering and cultivate…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Squashing our ego

If we have confidence in our good qualities, it will not matter what others say…

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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…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Don’t let success go to your head

Examining how real happiness is found inside, not outside in any form of wealth or…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Working with anger

Examining how the source of our anger is our own mind, and that we have…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

The misery of attachment

Investigating the affliction of attachment and how it leads to dissatisfaction and dukkha. Changing our…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Who am I?

Investigating the superficial way that our self and things appear to exist to arrive at…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Chasing rainbows

What actually is chocolate? When we look closely at the objects we are attached to…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Suffering is like a dream

Looking at things and people in a more realistic way can help us have a…

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