Don't Believe Everything You Think

It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When youre trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "e;While the enemy of your own [...]
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It can be hard for those of us living in the twenty-first century to see how fourteenth-century Buddhist teachings still apply. When youre trying to figure out which cell phone plan to buy or brooding about something someone wrote about you on Facebook, lines like "e;While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued, though you conquer external foes, they will only increase"e; can seem a little obscure. Thubten Chodrons illuminating explication of Togmay Zangpos revered text, The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, doesnt 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 transformationsmaking friends with an enemy prisoner-of-war, finding peace after the murder of a loved onewhile others tell of smaller lessons, like waiting for something to happen or coping with a minor injury.