ethical conduct
Teachings on ethical conduct, a fundamental Buddhist practice that is based on avoiding harmful actions and engaging in constructive actions.
Latest Posts
View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.
Venerable Thubten Chodron Living in the joy of the Dharma
The dedication verse encourages us to turn away from the hustle and bustle of our…
View Post
Putting the Dharma into practice
The importance of integrating the Dharma into everyday life, in whatever situations we encounter.
View Post
Becoming a better person
Practical steps on how to improve our ethical conduct and be kinder to those around…
View Post
Establishing a daily practice
How to integrate the Dharma into our daily lives from the time we wake up…
View Post
Making wise decisions
Key principles that we can use to make decisions that will create the causes of…
View Post
Gambling and other addictions
Expanding on the precept not to take intoxicants to include other activities, such as gambling,…
View Post
The eight one-day precepts
The eight Mahayana precepts that Buddhist practitioners may take.
View Post
Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese tradi...
Meditative absorptions beyond the ninth stage of sustained attention, and meditative paths to the union…
View Post
Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition
Advantageous preparations, postural position, and objects for meditation, and five faults that interfere with attaining…
View Post
Chapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings
Eight meditative liberations that temporarily suppress afflictions, and the super-knowledges and their compassionate purpose.
View Post
Chapter 5: Concentration: Process, barriers, and sig...
The five hindrances. their antidotes and five absorption factors, and the four jhānas and the…
View Post
Chapter 5: Higher training in concentration
Realms of existence and spheres of consciousness in gaining samadhi, and bodhisattva and tantric ethics…
View Post