Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles
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Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles

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You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chödrön. For at the core of your most painful experiences-perhaps more than anywhere else-you will find the seeds of your awakening. On Noble Heart, this bestselling author and Tibetan Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is our greatest spiritual resource amid life's difficulties. Using special medi...more
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Published October 30th 2004 by Sounds True (first published 1998)
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Wilma Rebstock
Pema Chodron makes difficult concepts attainable (I hope). At least they are much easier to understand. Even so, one feels the need to read and reread!
Elizabeth
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I managed to listed to this even thought the tapes were beyond listening to. I will have to get this some other way.
Maggie Dijkstra
thank you, Becky, for recommending this (yet another) excellent book by Pema. wow.
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Can't really get into this thru the audio book version. Too much explaining, qualifying, etc. The message may be there, but I can't sycn with her on the delivery.
MaryJohanna
Another great series of talks by Pema Chodron in 12 parts, including guided meditation practice.
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Noble Heart: A Self Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles (Analog Audio Cassette)
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Ani Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, closely associated with the Kagyu school and the Shambhala lineage.

She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children...more
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