Search results for “four immeasurables

Seven-point Mind Training

Transforming problems into compassion

How to use tonglen and other meditations on compassion to generate bodhicitta

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Green Tara tsa tsa on the Chenrezig Hall altar with offerings.
Green Tara Weeklong Retreat 2020

Meditation on Arya Tara

Explanation of the prayers and recitations of the Tara practice and the meaning of the…

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Manjushri Weeklong Retreat 2019

“Letter to a Friend”: Verses 35-42

Venerable Thubten Chodron covers verses 35-42 of Nagarjuna's "Letter to a Friend."

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Cover of Open Heart Clear Mind Study Guide
Books

Open Heart, Clear Mind study guide

Study guide to the book Open Heart, Clear Mind, a foundational and profound introduction to…

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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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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

Who are you judging?

Working on our anger and our judgmental minds in order to be able to see…

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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: Offering the mandala

An explanation of the outer and inner mandala offering in the context of the Amitabha…

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Illustration of an ear with sound waves going into it.
On Meditation

Meditation with noise

There are many distractions to meditation in prison. This is how one incarcerated person deals…

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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: Refuge visualization

A description of the refuge visualization for the Amitabha Buddha practice.

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapters 1-10: Review

Venerable Thubten Chodron begins the third installment of the course by reviewing the first ten…

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Amitabha

Bowing and making offerings to Amitabha

The seven-limb prayer as part of the Amitabha sadhana: the practices of bowing and making…

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