Becoming Aware of Our Buttons

In this install­ment of our Open Mind series, we get some prac­ti­cal advice on “Becoming Aware of Our Buttons,” mean­ing how to deal with things that usu­ally irri­tate us and “push our but­tons.” Venerable Thubten Chödron, an American Buddhist nun, empha­sizes a prac­ti­cal approach to han­dling daily life, and her meth­ods are based on Buddhist psy­chol­ogy. She’s also very direct. We apol­o­gize that the audio qual­ity of this record­ing is spotty in some places.

Venerable Thubten Chödron is the author of more than a dozen books, includ­ing Buddhism for Beginners and Working with Anger. She is the abbess of Sravasti Abbey, Buddhist monas­tic com­mu­nity in Washington State.