The Compassionate Kitchen with Venerable Thubten Chodron

The Compassionate Kitchen with Venerable Thubten Chodron

Aired Thursday, 23 May 2019, 7:00 PM ET

Food is undoubtedly one of the great pleasures in life… we all
spend a good deal of time thinking about it, preparing it, eating
it, and then cleaning up afterwards. But how many of us have ever
thought about the many activities associated with food as a
spiritual practice.

What if, instead of seeing these activities as chores or engaging
in them purely for pleasure, we could use them to increase our
kindness and care, and as reminders of how we wish to live out the
values that bring meaning to our lives.

Venerable Thubten Chodron has been a Buddhist nun since 1977. She
has been a close student of the Dalai Lama with whom she has
co-authored several books, and is founder and Abbess of Sravasti
Abbey, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist Training Monasteries for
Western monks and nuns in America.

Acclaimed for her warm, practical, and humorous explanations of how
to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life, Ven. Chodron joins
Sandie this week to talk about her latest book, The Compassionate
Kitchen, in which she shares some of the practices from the
Buddhist tradition that help us make eating and all the activities
related to it become part of our spiritual practice.

For more info, visit: https://thubtenchodron.org and
https://sravastiabbey.org/