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Thubten Chödrön

    18. září 1950

    Učená mniška Thubten Chodronová se specializuje na praktickou aplikaci Buddhových učení v každodenním životě. Své poznatky předává srozumitelným a přístupným způsobem, který rezonuje se západním publikem. Její lekce jsou známé svým vřelým, humorným a jasným podáním, které čtenářům umožňuje snadno integrovat buddhistickou filozofii do svých životů. Založila klášter Sravasti Abbey, aby podpořila trénink v tibetské buddhistické tradici pro západní studenty.

    Thubten Chödrön
    Cultivating A Compassionate Heart
    Open Heart Clear Mind
    Working with Anger
    Guided Buddhist Meditations
    Buddhismus pro začátečníky v otázkách a odpovědích
    Buddhismus V
    • 2024

      Working with Anger

      Buddhist Teachings on Patience, Acceptance, and Transforming Negativity

      • 176 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení
      4,0(1)Ohodnotit

      The book offers a range of Buddhist techniques aimed at managing and transforming anger into constructive energy. It focuses on understanding and subduing angry tendencies, providing practical strategies for individuals to cultivate a more peaceful and productive mindset in their daily lives.

      Working with Anger
    • 2019

      Awaken Every Day

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      4,0(55)Ohodnotit

      Daily dharma teachings on compassion, wisdom, mindfulness, and joy--ideal for creating moments of peace and reflection in our chaotic world. Awaken Every Day offers reflections for each day of the year, helping readers cultivate meaning in our own lives and contribute to the well-being of others. Venerable Thubten Chodron is beloved for her ability to help people understand key Buddhist teachings and apply them to the everyday challenges of life. Awaken Every Day shares a quick daily dose of this wisdom, encouraging readers to understand the true causes of our suffering and the paths to freedom. Whether we read straight through or dip in, whether we look for a teaching in the morning or a reflection in the evening, Awaken Every Day helps us understand our minds, our connections to our communities, and how to become the people we aspire to be.

      Awaken Every Day
    • 2019

      Guided Buddhist Meditations

      • 176 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení
      5,0(4)Ohodnotit

      A new edition of a Buddhist classic, an accessible introduction to the stages of the path (lamrim)--including 14 hours of downloadable audio meditations. The Stages of the Path, or lamrim, presentation of Buddhist teachings (a step-by-step method to tame the mind) is a core topic of Buddhist study. The lamrim meditations remind us that the process of transforming the mind, unlike so much of our frantic modern society, is a slow and thoughtful one. Best-selling author and Buddhist teacher Thubten Chodron here provides clear explanations of the stages of the path, as well as an accompanying downloadable audio program containing over fourteen hours of guided meditations on each of the topics covered in the text. Chodron discusses how to establish a daily practice and presents the meditations in detail, followed by advice for newcomers, instructions for working with distractions, antidotes to mental afflictions, and suggestions on how to deepen Dharma practice. Each practitioner will find meaning and insight according to their own skill level.

      Guided Buddhist Meditations
    • 2018

      The Compassionate Kitchen

      • 144 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      3,5(62)Ohodnotit

      Eating as a spiritual practice: wisdom from the Buddhist tradition that you can use at home.Every aspect of our daily activities can be a part of spiritual practice if done with compassion—and this compact guide offers wisdom from the Buddhist tradition on how eating mindfully can nourish the mind as well as the body.Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti Abbey in Washington state, shows us that eating and activities related to it—preparation of food, offering and consuming it, and cleaning up afterward—can contribute to awakening and to increased kindness and care toward others. Chodron offers traditional Buddhist teachings and specific practices used at the Abbey, along with advice for taking the principles into our own home in order to make the sharing of food a spiritual intention for anyone. By eating consciously and mindfully—and by including certain rituals—we find ourselves less obsessive about food and can enjoy our meals more.

      The Compassionate Kitchen
    • 2017

      In his Precious Garland, a classic of Indian Buddhist philosophy, Nagarjuna advises a king on how best to secure a happy rebirth while making progress toward the ultimate goal of enlightenment. In Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness, Khensur Jampa Tegchok walks us through the Precious Garland, drawing out the implications of its arguments and grounding its advice in our world today, with equal measures of penetrating explanation and inspiring encouragement.

      Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness
    • 2017

      Gutes Karma

      Wie man Glück erschafft und Leid vermeidet

      Warum geschehen die Dinge in unserem Leben so und nicht anders? Wie können wir die Ursachen für Glück erzeugen? In der buddhistischen Praxis der Geistesschulung finden wir die Antwort auf diese Fragen: Unter anderem gehört dazu, dass wir unsere Ichbezogenheit überwinden und an ihrer Stelle anderen gegenüber eine Haltung der liebevollen Wertschätzung entwickeln. Dies wiederum führt uns zu einer Art des Handelns, durch die wir auf ganz natürliche Weise vom Leiden weg und hin zum Glück gelangen - kurzum gutes Karma erzeugen. In ihrem Kommentar zu einem der großen buddhistischen Gedichte, Das Rad der scharfen Waffen, zeigt Thubten Chodron klar und praxisnah, wie man die Ursachen für Unruhe, Angst und Niedergeschlagenheit beseitigen und für sich selbst und alle anderen die Ursachen für freudige Befreiung erzeugen kann.

      Gutes Karma
    • 2016

      Good Karma

      • 256 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      4,2(53)Ohodnotit

      Training the mind in the habit of happiness--enlightening commentary on a classic Tibetan Buddhist teaching poem by a popular modern teaching nun. Lojong, or "mind-training" is a practice that has gained astonishing popularly in recent years--because it works in transforming hearts and minds. Here is a presentation of lojong teachings that predates the "slogan" practice with which people have become so familiar through the books of Pema Chödrön and others, and that is every bit as powerful for imbuing the mind with intelligence and the heart with compassion. It is Thubten Chodron's commentary on a Tibetan poem with the imposing title "Wheel of Sharp Weapons." It is, as the title of this book indicates, an explanation of how karma works in our lives. But in explaining how to create good karma and avoid the negative effects of bad karma, it shows us how to live our lives with kindness and honesty--which makes things better not only for ourselves, but also for everyone else in the world.

      Good Karma
    • 2013

      How To Free Your Mind

      • 224 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      4,0(10)Ohodnotit

      Tara, the feminine embodiment of enlightened activity, is a Buddhist deity whose Tibetan name means "liberator," signaling her ability to liberate beings from the delusion and ignorance that keep them trapped in ever-recurring patterns of negativity. She embodies a challenge—to transform our minds and become like her, whose tranquility, compassion, and wisdom make her so beautiful—but one that is profoundly nurturing. In the author's words, "We can relax in her presence and look at ourselves honestly, knowing that Tara will not judge, reject, or abandon us due to our shortcomings. Like a mother, she sees her child's potential—in this case, our spiritual potential or Buddha-nature—and wants to nurture it." Ven. Chodron describes a simple meditation on Tara, explaining its benefits and its application to daily life. She then presents two well-loved praises to Tara, together with reflections on their meanings for modern practitioners. Included here are the "Homage to the Twenty-one Taras," verses that are frequently chanted in Tibetan monasteries and homes, and "A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible," by Lama Lobsang Tenpey Gyaltsen.

      How To Free Your Mind
    • 2012

      Don't Believe Everything You Think

      • 245 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When you’re trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like “While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued, though you conquer external foes, they will only increase” can seem a little obscure. Thubten Chodron’s illuminating explication of Togmay Zangpo’s revered text, The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, doesn’t just explain its profound meaning; in dozens of passages she lets her students and colleagues share first-person stories of the ways that its teachings have changed their lives. Some bear witness to dramatic transformations—making friends with an enemy prisoner-of-war, finding peace after the murder of a loved one—while others tell of smaller lessons, like waiting for something to happen or coping with a minor injury.

      Don't Believe Everything You Think
    • 2012

      Taming The Mind

      • 230 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      4,0(90)Ohodnotit

      We all wish to gain greater understanding of ourselves. This ideal follow-up to the author's extremely popular Buddhism for Beginners explains in clear and simple language the essence of Buddhist philosophy and psychology together with practical tools for immediate implementation in our daily lives.We all want to have good relationships with others. Chodron offers practical techniques to help us gain a more spacious perspective on relationships, whether they be between lovers, parent and child, employer and employee, friends, or spiritual teacher and student. Guidelines are given for how to practice freeing ourselves from habitually blaming others for our problems and learning to be on the spot and take responsibility for our lives. This book describes how our mind/heart, not the external world, is the ultimate source of our happiness. We learn how to look at people and situations in an entirely new light. The book concludes with a discussion of common misconceptions about Buddhism. The author's down-to-earth language and examples invite us not only to engage the material but to implement it in our own lives. The author's open-minded approach makes this book suitable for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

      Taming The Mind