Thubten Chodron
Teachings by Venerable Thubten Chodron.
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What’s love got to do with it?
Exploring the true meaning of happiness and how generating love for others helps us to…
View PostBenefits on meditating on the Buddha
Explaining the benefits of meditating on the Buddha and a variety of meditation objects for…
View PostKarmic consequences of taking advantage of others
Examining situations when we are deceived by others and when our efforts are not successful.
View PostPernicious thoughts
Questions about karma plus verses outlining obstacles to our spiritual practice and peace of mind.
View PostThe importance of making offerings
How making offerings benefits us and how self-grasping ignorance causes afflictions to arise.
View PostKarma and the mind’s namtok
Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.
View PostOvercoming spiritual obstacles
How contemplating impermanence and the defects of cyclic existence helps to transform our minds.
View PostThe four characteristics of karma
How to understand karma in the context of cyclic existence and multiple lifetimes.
View PostThe importance of understanding emptiness
Commentary on Chapter 1 of "Searching for the Self."
View PostObjects for developing serenity
Continuing with observed objects for developing serenity, explaining three sections from Chapter 6: Objects for…
View PostPower of water, power of the mind
The importance of caring for our planet out of respect for those who depend on…
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