Search results for “our beautiful human potential

Becoming a Monastic

Dismantling identities

Venerable Thubten Kunga describes how living at Sravasti Abbey supports her intention to dismantle old…

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Venerable Chodron standing with monastics and lay people at Shide Nunnery.
Western Monastics

Interview with Shide Nunnery

An interview with Venerable Chodron with nuns from Shide Nunnery in Germany about the mindful…

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Cover of The Gomchen Lamrim Study Guide.
Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim study guide

Contemplation points for the Gomchen Lamrim teaching series.

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Statue of Kuan Yin.
Bodhisattva Path

Taking and giving

How to practice tonglen, the taking-and-giving meditation.

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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: Aspirational prayer

A commentary to the aspirational prayer in the Amitabha Buddha sadhana.

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Venerable meditating during a teaching at KSMPKS.
Amitabha

Connecting with Amitabha Buddha

The Amitabha Buddha practice and what a pure land is. The benefits and the causes…

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Responding to Prejudice

Overcoming anger towards those who use hate speech

The Buddha had an answer for those who believed in the innate superiority of certain…

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Meditation

Advice for beginner meditators

A listing of teachings and videos for those new to Buddhist meditation.

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Gomchen Lamrim

The causes of bodhicitta

The causes to create in order to develop bodhicitta, the altruistic intention. The importance of…

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Newly sprouted seeds.
Dharma in Daily Life

Life is like sowing seeds

Interview with Venerable Thubten Chodron by The Times of India at a talk organized by…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The three higher trainings

How the three higher trainings relate to each other and why we need all three…

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