Good Karma: How to Create the Causes for Happiness and Avoid the Causes for Suffering

Venerable Thubten Chodron
Good Karma: How to Create the Causes for Happiness and Avoid the Causes for Suffering
Friday, April 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm and Saturday, April 15 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
We are very honored and delighted to welcome Venerable Thubten Chodron back to Kurukulla Center the weekend of April 14. Venerable Chodron is especially skilled at explaining the Buddha's teachings in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well-known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings.

Good Karma: How to Create the Causes for Happiness and Avoid the Causes for Suffering
Why do things happen the way they do in our lives? How do we create the causes for a happy life? The Buddhist practice of mind training gives us the answer to these questions: it involves overcoming our self-centered attitude and replacing it with an attitude that cherishes others. This, in turn, leads us to act in ways that naturally lead away from suffering and toward happiness-in short, to create good karma.

Venerable Chodron will be teaching on one of the great Tibetan Buddhist poems, The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, which shows, clearly and practically, how to eliminate the causes of anxiety, fear, and depression and to create the causes of joyful liberation for oneself and all others. This is also the topic of her latest book, Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering.
All welcome and no registration required.

About Venerable Chodron
Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only 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 Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche.
Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her 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 has co-authored a book with His Holiness the Dalai Lama-Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions. Her latest book is Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering, and her Buddhism for Beginners and Open Heart, Clear Mind are widely recommended introductory books.

Visit thubtenchodron.org for a media library of her teachings, and sravasti.org to learn more about the Abbey.