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The Seven-Point Mind Training with Ven. Thubten Chodron

March 15 @ 10:30 am - March 16 @ 12:00 pm PDT

Hybrid Hybrid Event

The Seven-Point Mind Training:
Power Tools for Overcoming Problems
with Ven. Thubten Chodron

March 8-9 (Sat-Sun), March 15-16 (Sat-Sun)

Saturday March 8: 9:30am to 11 am Pacific Time
Sunday March 9: 10:30am to 12pm Pacific Time
March 15 and 16: 10:30am to 12pm Pacific Time

In-person at the Abbey
In-person in Reno
Or on Zoom

Abbess teaches.

Venerable Thubten Chodron continues her teachings for Dharmakaya Buddhist Center on Seven-Point Mind Training, a classic Buddhist text by 12th century Tibetan scholar Geshe Chekawa. A well-loved text studied in monasteries across Tibet, it offers practical tips on how to apply the Buddha’s teachings to transform our problems into the path to liberation and buddhahood itself.

The Seven-point Mind Training is a classic Buddhist text to train compassion. It covers a variety of challenging situations that one may encounter in cultivating Bodhicitta, along with practical means to handle them. For hundreds of years, this text has received widespread attention in all major monasteries in Tibet.

The purpose of these teachings is to strengthen and increase the mind of bodhicitta the vast mind of great compassion and love for all beings. Mind training is a journey, not a destination. It takes time and dedication, but it can be a powerful tool for living a more peaceful and fulfilling life.

​One learns to watch how the mind works and reacts to the experiences and problems of life and then to apply these teachings to change the experience of problems into the path to liberation and enlightenment itself.

Watch the first part of the teachings, from fall 2024, here

Registration information

Attending Online in Reno

Register here through Dharmakaya Buddhist Center

Attending at the Abbey

Special Saturday Double Feature! After the teaching on Saturday, we will have a special Offering Service Saturday. Your choice: depart after the teaching, after lunch, or after offering service in the afternoon.

Register here to attend in-person at the Abbey for one or more days of the teaching.

More about the teacher

Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist training monasteries 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, Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She received full ordination as a bhikshuni in 1986.

She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, including the ten-volumes of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with whom she has studied for nearly forty years.

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. Learn more about her. Find a media library of her teachings and info on her books on her personal website, ThubtenChodron.org.

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March 15 @ 10:30 am PDT
End:
March 16 @ 12:00 pm PDT
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https://www.dharmakayacenter.com/upcoming-event---ven-chodron.html

Venue

Sravasti Abbey
692 Country Lane
Newport, WA 99156 United States
Phone
509-447-5549
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Organizer

Dharmakaya Buddhist Center
Phone
(775) 232-8067
Email
info@dharmakayacenter.com
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