
Finding Joy in Troubled Times with Ven. Sangye Khadro
May 2 @ 4:00 pm - May 4 @ 2:30 pm PDT

Finding Joy in Troubled Times
with Ven. Sangye Khadro
May 2-4

Our world faces many challenges right now—wars, climate change, natural disasters, political conflicts, and the like. On top of these, we each face our own personal troubles—relationships, health, finances, and so on. In such conditions, it’s easy to fall prey to anxiety and despair. However, the Buddha’s teachings explain that our experiences mainly depend on our mind.
By working on our mind, we can transform difficulties into opportunities for spiritual growth and even into happiness and peace. Techniques to bring this transformation are found in a genre of teachings known as lojong, or mind training.
Join Venerable Sangye Khadro as she explains the Buddhist view on how our mind shapes our experiences of suffering and happiness. She will share lojong methods to decrease unhappy experiences such as stress and anxiety, and increase positive states like resilience, optimism, and compassion.
In time, we can learn how to stay joyful and content whatever the circumstances, for the benefit of ourself and others.
More on Lojong
The Dalai Lama explains mind training in the following way:
The essential message of the lojong teaching is that if we want to see a better world, we should begin by improving our own mind….We can spend our life trying to “tame” the world, a task that would never end; or we can take the more practical path of “taming” our own minds. The latter is by far the more effective approach, and brings the most immediate, stable, and lasting solution. It contributes to our own inner happiness, and also contributes to establishing an atmosphere of peace and harmony in the world around us.
—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, in the Foreword to Training the Mind in the Great Way
Registration information
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More about the teacher
California-born, Ven. Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in Nepal in 1974, and took the full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. She has studied Buddhism with many great masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. She began teaching in 1979 and was a resident teacher at Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore for 11 years. In addition to Awakening the Kind Heart, she is the author of several books, including How to Meditate, now in its 17th printing. In 2024 she published How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: A Guide to the Lamrim.