Forgiving Ourselves

Ven. Thubten Chodron gives an 8.5 minute talk followed by a 9.5 minute guided meditation on letting go of self-blame and appreciating our good qualities.

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Thank you for your kind words of bringing loving kindness to my prior self.

Such a gentle, beautiful journey of forgiveness of self..it calmed my mind & soothed my anxious feelings. Grateful 🙏

This was helpful and nice and very wise. Thank you so much teacher😊

So beautifully crafted and guided. Thank you so much 🙏💖

Thank you for this helpful practice. This is the foundation to changing my life.

I didn’t realize how much I needed to hear this. Thank you for your guidance. 🙏🏻❤️

I’m so full of anger and rage today, thank you for this blessing 🙏❤️🕊️☮️🌱🪷

Ven. Thubten Chodron has always been an excellent Dharma teacher.
Thank you

Very useful meditation indeed. Forgiving ourselves is the foundation for being able to forgive others.

So helpful for forgiving yourself and others which is key to getting over trauma and moving on.

Wise and comforting reflection. Struggling to deal with the trauma created by a romantic betrayal and abandonment over four decades ago, I have more recently become aware of my shame and self-laceration for failing to recognize or acknowledge the narcissistic and unkind qualities of my then partner. When contemplating my 24 year-old self, I set the intention to forgive him his worldly and emotional immaturity and help him to recognize that he was not to blame in any way for the events that devastated him so completely.
This may not have been completely in the spirit of the meditation; I wasn’t forgiving myself for an action that caused hurt to another. However, I gained some insight into my long-term and self-destructive Response to those events.

Beautiful talk thank you and I really enjoyed putting the talk into practice with the meditation. I will revisit this often, the simplicity of this teaching was just lovely 🙏

Made me cry. I saw myself struggling. I felt so bad for them. They were so lost. 💚

Thank you for sharing these beautiful words... so helpful

There is so much to manage in the quest to live mindfully. Just when you feel your present-moment awareness and gratitude are becoming second nature, you realize you need to revisit self-forgiveness….Thanks for this wonderful guidance.

I honestly believe we are all doing the best we can. BRAVO!

That was incredibly helpful and gave me powerful insight. Thank you.

Thank you for showing me/ all of us a way out 🙏🏻🌻

Will come back again and again. Many thanks! Very helpful

Your point of view here really helps, thank you. I feel deeply burdoned by my past, as I've taken a weight of the world personally, and this perspective gives me a better insight.