Thought Training
Teachings that help us transform our minds to see people and events we find challenging from a Dharma perspective.
All Posts in Thought Training
Venerable Thubten Chodron Serving others instead of exploiting them
How to overcome miserliness and being mistreated by others.
View Post
The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
View Post
A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
Introduction to the Buddhist worldview and "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."
View Post
Living a life that matters
How to overcome the eight worldly concerns and generate bodhicitta.
View Post
Practicing the Dharma in difficult times
How to take the difficulties that are part of life into our spiritual practice to…
View Post
Offering our help to all beings
Doing the taking and giving meditation to purify past actions.
View Post
Dealing with betrayal of trust
How to work with attachment and respond to harm from others with compassion.
View Post
We are not inherently selfish
Purifying the harm we have done to others directly and to ourselves indirectly.
View Post
Solving problems at their root
How we can get the specific results that we want by creating the right causes.
View Post
Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) How to develop compassion
How to develop compassion and why compassion is required for full awakening.
View Post
The role of compassion on the path
Examining how the mind exists and the role of compassion on the path to awakening.
View Post