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Venerable Thubten Chodron Why does this get to me?
Reflecting on why we are triggered when someone is overwhelmed by negative energy or intense…
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Confronting and averting afflictions
How we should be fearful of our afflictions and polluted karma, not other people.
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Attachment endangers us
How when afflictions arise, we often don’t discern them as harmful.
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Antidote for multiple mood swings in a day
Comparing the changes of the weather to our mood swings.
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How to recognize or identify our afflictions
How the body and mind give us clues when afflictions are at play.
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How intoxicants affect mindfulness and introspective...
Bringing our attention to the role of intoxicants in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
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Afflictions arise with a happy or angry mind
Encouraging us to be mindful of the afflictions playing in the background of our mind.
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Holding others as supreme
The second verse of the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation," in connection with the developments…
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Supporting the Dharma practitioner
There is merit in supporting the Dharma practitioner, but we also need to practice the…
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Practice, study, and offer service
Each of us needs to find the right combination of study, practice, and service that…
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Commitments and monotony
We need to keep up our practice because the benefit comes from its cumulative effect.
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