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Awakening Compassion: Meditation Practice for Difficult Times
For more than eight hundred years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the principles of lojong (literally meaning "mind training") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Awakening Compassion is the first full-length audio retreat on the practice of lojong taught by Pema ChAdrAn. With many on-the-spot techniques for dealing with...more
Compact Disc, 9 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by Sounds True
(first published March 1997)
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This installment of my audio Pema-palooza is all about what to do when we hit our edge – those moments where suddenly everything feels so solid and we’re anxious or angry and frantic to do something about it, to get illusory ground beneath our feet, desperate for resolution. These lengthy lectures on tonglen practice (breathing in what is difficult, breathing out what is helpful to create space around difficult emotions and awaken compassion) and the lojong (mind training) slogans are ultimatel...more
One of the very best audios you could listen to on this. I love how Pema can say things in a real earthy fashion while pulling in the big picture perspective AND be funny at the same time. She is one of the best! There is a lot on the lojong meditation practice in here too, but the most important part is all the discussions on how to work with life itself.
An entertaining and realistic look at the challenges of living mindfully and compassionately in the 'real' world. Be warned though, she uses some colorful language. Certainly nothing I hadn't heard before, but shocking, to me, coming from a Buddhist nun.
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I didn't rate this when I listened to it but I've never listened to Pema Chödrön without learning something valuable.
Another great series of lectures and discussions on meditation, with an advanced section on the practice of tonglen.
From the Pema Chodron website: "The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering — ours and that which is all around us — everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us, ... "
From the Pema Chodron website: "The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering — ours and that which is all around us — everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us, ... "
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made a copy even though the tapes were not in such good condition
loved this
made a copy even though the tapes were not in such good condition
loved this
* * * * * Wonderful!
Dominic
marked it as to-read
This is an 6-CD audio on meditation by my favorite Buddhist author, Pema Chödrön. It is also the impetus for my summer Meditation Retreat of one.
1995 6 cassettes
Deanna Macdonald
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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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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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