Open Heart, Clear Mind - with Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Thubten Chodron offers practical advice on how we can apply Buddhist psychology to modern life in order to better understand ourselves and improve the quality of our lives.
Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a pioneering Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the US. She graduated from UCLA and did graduate work in education at USC. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977, she has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenzhap Serkong Rinpoche, and other Tibetan lamas. She received full ordination as a Bhikshuni in 1986.
Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her warm, practical, and humorous explanations of how to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life. She is also involved in prison outreach and interfaith dialogue. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation and is currently assisting His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the writing and publication of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume series of teachings on the Buddhist path. Visit thubtenchodron... for a media library of her teachings, and sravastiabbey.org to learn more about Sravasti Abbey.
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Great teaching. Thank you so much Ven. Chodron🙏🙏🙏. Good to know about rebirth elsewhere in the universe. It does give a measure of comfort that it doesn't all end for sentient beings after we destroy our ability to be able to live on planet earth. We have options if we create positive karma!