Pema Chödrön

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Introduction 00:00 Tools
Limitlessness 00:00 Tools
Seeking Pleasure In the Wrong Places 00:00 Tools
The Challenge Of Being Present 00:00 Tools
Stop Scratching 00:00 Tools
Ego: The Root Of The Problem 00:00 Tools
Exploring The Itch 00:00 Tools
The Open Awareness Of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Shenpa: How We Get Hooked 00:00 Tools
Addictions And Our Fundamental Uneasiness 00:00 Tools
The Doorway To Liberation 00:00 Tools
Listening Meditation Practice 00:00 Tools
Recognizing Patterns Of Habituation 00:00 Tools
The Source of True Compassion 00:00 Tools
Catching Your Shenpa In Action 00:00 Tools
Recognizing, Refraining, Relaxing, And Resolving 00:00 Tools
Engaging Shenpa In Meditation 00:00 Tools
It's not bad to have thoughts 00:00 Tools
Degrees of Shenpa 00:00 Tools
Using the breath to get unstuck 00:00 Tools
Q&A The most important thing 00:00 Tools
Unconditional Confidence: Disc 1 00:00 Tools
Getting curious about your world 00:00 Tools
Session 1: Learning To Stay 00:00 Tools
Lightening things up 00:00 Tools
Making daily aspirations 00:00 Tools
The balance of gloriousness and wretchedness 00:00 Tools
Q&A Addressing trauma in meditation 00:00 Tools
Stop Kicking The Wheel 00:00 Tools
Seeing yourself clearly 00:00 Tools
Learning To Stay - Introduction 00:00 Tools
How To Uncover Your True Nature 00:00 Tools
The tender heart 00:00 Tools
Keeping a bigger perspective 00:00 Tools
Maitri Practice 00:00 Tools
Teaching Yourself The Dharma 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Your Path To Awakening 00:00 Tools
The Three Lords Of Materialism 00:00 Tools
Melting Into Emptiness 00:00 Tools
Encountering The Ineffable 00:00 Tools
Relative Practices, Absolute View 00:00 Tools
Introduction 1 00:00 Tools
Shambhala Audio Presents 00:00 Tools
The Love That Will Not Die 00:00 Tools
Delusion Vs. Illusion 00:00 Tools
Unconditional Confidence: Disc 2 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1a 00:00 Tools
Beginning The Path Of The Brave Ones 00:00 Tools
Not Causing Harm 00:00 Tools
The Four Limitless Ones 00:00 Tools
The potential for unshakable happiness 00:00 Tools
Mindfulness And Maitri 00:00 Tools
The Lord Of Mind 00:00 Tools
The Lord Of Form 00:00 Tools
Not Giving Up On Yourself 00:00 Tools
Taking Your Practice Into The World 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1b 00:00 Tools
Q & A: Letting Go Of Resistance 00:00 Tools
Activism Without Aggression 00:00 Tools
The Three Vehicles 00:00 Tools
The Lord Of Speech 00:00 Tools
Shenpa-The Energy Of Our Likes And Dislikes-1j 00:00 Tools
Bowing To Your Thoughts 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1c 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1e 00:00 Tools
Maitri And Karuna 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1g 00:00 Tools
The Propensity to Be Bothered 00:00 Tools
Q & A: Having Compassion, Drawing Boundaries 00:00 Tools
Becoming Your Own Meditation Instructor 00:00 Tools
The Cause Of Suffering 00:00 Tools
Working With Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1f 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1d 00:00 Tools
Introduction2 00:00 Tools
Cheerfulness Practice-1m 00:00 Tools
Thinking Bigger, Feeling Bigger 00:00 Tools
A guided Maitri session 00:00 Tools
Working with the precepts 00:00 Tools
Shenpa- The Energy Of Our Likes And Dislikes-1i 00:00 Tools
Making A Case Against Anger-1h 00:00 Tools
What Is The Root Cause Of Happiness And Suffering? 00:00 Tools
open space 00:00 Tools
Getting Rid of Blame 00:00 Tools
Just Stay 00:00 Tools
Mindfulness Awareness Practice 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2a 00:00 Tools
Developing Lovingkindness 00:00 Tools
Relax As It Is 00:00 Tools
Cheerfulness Practice-1l 00:00 Tools
Stepping Into Our Own Hearts 00:00 Tools
What Causes Suffering and What Triggers Suffering 00:00 Tools
A Guided Meditation 00:00 Tools
Q & A: An Alternative To Outrage 00:00 Tools
The Nature Of Compassion 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Dicomfort-2i 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2c 00:00 Tools
The path to awakening 00:00 Tools
The Purpose And Practice Of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Learning To Settle 00:00 Tools
Cheerfulness Practice-1k 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2b 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2d 00:00 Tools
Honesty and loving kindness 00:00 Tools
The Original Teachings Of The Buddha 00:00 Tools
Introduction 2 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situatuion-2k 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Coming Back To The Breath 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Being Present 00:00 Tools
Session Five: Tools For Liberation 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2j 00:00 Tools
The Three Marks Of Existence 00:00 Tools
Start With Awareness 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2g 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2f 00:00 Tools
Reframing Our Attitude Toward Discomfort-2h 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2l 00:00 Tools
An Aspiration For World Peace 00:00 Tools
Maitri And The Root Of Happiness 00:00 Tools
The aspiration practice of compassion 00:00 Tools
The Three Stages Of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2t 00:00 Tools
No Cure For Up And Down 00:00 Tools
The Healing Power Of Bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Going Beneath the Storyline 00:00 Tools
Being Faithful To The Technique 00:00 Tools
Meditation Technique 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2q 00:00 Tools
Everything Is New In Each Moment 00:00 Tools
Our habitual cravings 00:00 Tools
Half-heartedness 00:00 Tools
Working with Depression 00:00 Tools
Working With Posture 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3c 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3e 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3a 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2o 00:00 Tools
Comfortable With Uncertainty 00:00 Tools
The Habit Of Distraction - Introduction 00:00 Tools
Hopelessness and Death 00:00 Tools
Introduction - Taking Your Practice Into The World 00:00 Tools
Tonglen: Cultivating Compassion 00:00 Tools
Absolute Truth 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3o 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3f 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3i 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3h 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3b 00:00 Tools
Four Limitless Ones Chant 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3d 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2n 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3j 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2r 00:00 Tools
Why Meditate? 00:00 Tools
Session 2: The Habit Of Distraction 00:00 Tools
A generous heart 00:00 Tools
Our Basic Goodness in The Face of Difficult Events 00:00 Tools
Introduction - Tools For Liberation 00:00 Tools
turning poison into medicine 00:00 Tools
Introduction Disc 1 00:00 Tools
Session Six: Taking Your Practice Into The World 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3n 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2p 00:00 Tools
Sowing seeds of happiness 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3p 00:00 Tools
The Wisdom Of No Escape 00:00 Tools
Ways we avoid being present 00:00 Tools
Changing the Movie of Your Life 00:00 Tools
The Slogans Of Atisa 00:00 Tools
The eight worldy dharmas 00:00 Tools
The practice of rejoicing 00:00 Tools
When forgiveness is difficult 00:00 Tools
The far enemies of compassion 00:00 Tools
Unlimited equanimity 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3g 00:00 Tools
Overview Of Loving-Kindness 00:00 Tools
Taking Time For Meditation 00:00 Tools
This Very Moment 00:00 Tools
Just Be Curious 00:00 Tools
Three Methods for Working With Chaos 00:00 Tools
Compassion And Open-Heartedness 00:00 Tools
The Practice Of Mindfulness 00:00 Tools
Why Meditate 00:00 Tools
The near enemies of compassion 00:00 Tools
Exercises 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3l 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3k 00:00 Tools
Developing Tolerance Under Fire-3m 00:00 Tools
The Origins Of Suffering 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2s 00:00 Tools
The Root Of Suffering 00:00 Tools
No Escape, No Problem 00:00 Tools
Start Where You Are 00:00 Tools
Cultivating Loyalty to self 00:00 Tools
Speaking from yhe Heart 00:00 Tools
Unlimited Joy 00:00 Tools
Embracing the Most Challenging Things 00:00 Tools
Compassion as a melting practice 00:00 Tools
Shunyata 00:00 Tools
Introduction (disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Shamatha Meditation 00:00 Tools
Seeing The Complexity Of Every Situation-2m 00:00 Tools
Perfect Teacher 00:00 Tools
Equanimity Instructions 00:00 Tools
Action, speech and mind 00:00 Tools
The Five Skandhas 00:00 Tools
The Three Prajnas 00:00 Tools
No Such Thing As A True Story 00:00 Tools
Working With Negativity 00:00 Tools
Uncertain nature of reality 00:00 Tools
Going Against The Grain 00:00 Tools
An introduction to compassion practice 00:00 Tools
Advice For Breath In Contemplation 00:00 Tools
Meeting the Energy Beneath Your Storyline 00:00 Tools
"Sending And Taking" With The Breath 00:00 Tools
Lojong Practice 00:00 Tools
Q & A 00:00 Tools
The quality of clear seeing 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness And Meditation 00:00 Tools
Suffering And Happiness 00:00 Tools
The Heart Sutra mantra 00:00 Tools
"On-the-spot" Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Reversing the Wheel of Samsara 00:00 Tools
Sitting Meditation 00:00 Tools
Tips For Tonglen Practice 00:00 Tools
Awakening in the Charnel Ground 00:00 Tools
Guided Mindfulness Meditation 00:00 Tools
The Four Stages Of Formal Tonglen Practice 00:00 Tools
Simple Tonglen For Pain And Pleasure 00:00 Tools
Bodhicitta:Awakened Heart 00:00 Tools
Overview Of Compassion 00:00 Tools
Accessing our innate wisom 00:00 Tools
Maitri 00:00 Tools
It's NeverToo Late 00:00 Tools
Softening Fear 00:00 Tools
The Eightfold Path 00:00 Tools
Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality 00:00 Tools
Understanding Loving-Kindness 00:00 Tools
Buddha’s teachings on groundlessness 00:00 Tools
The fearless state 00:00 Tools
The heart of bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Emotions as a Catalyst for Experiencing Emptiness 00:00 Tools
Overview Of Joy 00:00 Tools
Overview Of Equanimity 00:00 Tools
Shamatha Meditation Instructions 00:00 Tools
Ceen 00:00 Tools
Turning Arrows Into Flowers 00:00 Tools
Not clinging to anything 00:00 Tools
The Path Of Meditation 00:00 Tools
Servants Of Peace 00:00 Tools
The practice of offering 00:00 Tools
No big deal:flexibility 00:00 Tools
Perceiving Ourselves Through Wisdom Mind 00:00 Tools
Great suffering=compassion 00:00 Tools
Overview Of Bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Looking At Our Emotions 00:00 Tools
No Big Deal 00:00 Tools
Thinking Bigger 00:00 Tools
Unconditional Confidence: 1 00:00 Tools
Resistance 00:00 Tools
Be Grateful To Everyone 00:00 Tools
Maitri Is Moving Closer To Oneself 00:00 Tools
The Prajnaparmita in us 00:00 Tools
Karma, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Bodhicitta:open heart 00:00 Tools
Guided Tonglen Session 00:00 Tools
Generosity 00:00 Tools
Attention to the moment 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness 00:00 Tools
Embracing Intensity 00:00 Tools
Being Right Here 00:00 Tools
Rejoicing Instructions 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness Meditation 00:00 Tools
The bodhisattva ideal 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Faithful To Being Present 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Workable 00:00 Tools
Nothing To Hold On To 00:00 Tools
This Very Moment Is the Perfect Teacher 00:00 Tools
Be Where You Are 00:00 Tools
Our Habitual Patterns 00:00 Tools
Fear and Mortality 00:00 Tools
Patience 00:00 Tools
Tonglen And Fearlessness 00:00 Tools
Being with Dying 00:00 Tools
The Buddha As The Great Physician 00:00 Tools
The Seed Of Spaciounsess 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness Instructions 00:00 Tools
Staying In The Middle 00:00 Tools
Understanding Compassion And Bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Practicing The Seven Steps 00:00 Tools
Greeting The Present Moment 00:00 Tools
Pulling Out The Rug 00:00 Tools
Uncovering Buddha Nature 00:00 Tools
Energy Of The Tantric Way 00:00 Tools
Cultivating Compassion 00:00 Tools
Emptiness and form 00:00 Tools
The Vajrayana Approach 00:00 Tools
Coming Back Into Presence 00:00 Tools
The Dharma 00:00 Tools
Freeflowing Bodhichitta Is Always There 00:00 Tools
Let The World Speak For Itself 00:00 Tools
Impermanence 00:00 Tools
Drive All Blames Into One 00:00 Tools
Three Turnings Of The Wheel Of Dharma 00:00 Tools
Introduction: (Disc 2) 00:00 Tools
Transformation 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Relaxation 00:00 Tools
Rousing Bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Attention And Relaxation 00:00 Tools
The Four Stages of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Refreshing Your Body 00:00 Tools
Training In Letting Go 00:00 Tools
How to work with your mind 00:00 Tools
True Stories Of The Power Of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.3 - Stop scratching 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.1 - Introduction - Learning to Stay 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.2 - The challenge of being present 00:00 Tools
Hope And Fear 00:00 Tools
A Living Retreat 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Uncovering Buddha Nature 00:00 Tools
Encountering The Edge 00:00 Tools
Understanding Joy 00:00 Tools
Heaven And Hell 00:00 Tools
Weather And The Four Noble Truths 00:00 Tools
The Opposite Of Samsara 00:00 Tools
Communicating From the Heart 00:00 Tools
Being One With The Energy 00:00 Tools
Verse 6: Anxiety and fear 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Finding Balance 00:00 Tools
Cherishing Our Lives 00:00 Tools
Accessing Our Innate Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness: The Essential Practice 00:00 Tools
Inconvenience 00:00 Tools
Honesty And Loving-Kindness 00:00 Tools
Gratefulness to out teachers 00:00 Tools
The Practice Of Equanimity 00:00 Tools
The Practice Of Compassion 00:00 Tools
Verse 1: The three disciplines 00:00 Tools
Gentleness, Patience, And Humor 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.7 - Listening meditation practice 00:00 Tools
Instructions On The Seven Stages Of Meditation 00:00 Tools
Shamatha Instructions 00:00 Tools
Egolessness 00:00 Tools
Poison As Medicine 00:00 Tools
Being Curious About Impermanence 00:00 Tools
Strengthening Our Positive Habits 00:00 Tools
Waiting For A Thought To Occur 00:00 Tools
On-the-Spot Practice Instructions 00:00 Tools
Widening the Circle of Compassion 00:00 Tools
Six Points of Posture 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Working With Thoughts 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Part of the Path to Awakening 00:00 Tools
Nowness 00:00 Tools
Prologue 00:00 Tools
Crazy Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Fixation And The Thinking Process 00:00 Tools
Tapping Into The Spring 00:00 Tools
The Empty Boat 00:00 Tools
Recognize Suffering 00:00 Tools
All Dharmas Agree At One Point 00:00 Tools
Experience Your Life 00:00 Tools
Fully Here 00:00 Tools
Introduction: Disc 5 00:00 Tools
Lighten Up 00:00 Tools
Seven-Stage Loving-Kindness Meditation 00:00 Tools
Regard All Dharmas As Dreams 00:00 Tools
Working with the Slogans 00:00 Tools
Staying With What Is Difficult 00:00 Tools
Poison As Medicine (Continued) 00:00 Tools
We Have Been Practicing Equanimity All Along 00:00 Tools
What Is Karma? 00:00 Tools
The Practice Of Mindfulness And Refraining 00:00 Tools
Four Limitless Ones Poem 00:00 Tools
Meditation 00:00 Tools
Understanding Equanimity 00:00 Tools
Cultivating Equanimity Through Basic Sitting Meditation 00:00 Tools
Introduction 3 00:00 Tools
Heightened Neurosis 00:00 Tools
Deepening Tonglen 00:00 Tools
The Big Squeeze 00:00 Tools
The Mind Of The Buddha 00:00 Tools
Loving-Kindness And Tonglen 00:00 Tools
The Six Points Of Posture 00:00 Tools
Staying With Our Own Energy 00:00 Tools
Getting To Know Fear 00:00 Tools
The Facts of Life 00:00 Tools
Abiding In The Fearless State 00:00 Tools
Open To Whatever Arises 00:00 Tools
Balancing And Settling 00:00 Tools
On-The-Spot Tonglen 00:00 Tools
It's Never Too Late 00:00 Tools
Curiosity And The Circle Of Compassion 00:00 Tools
Cultivating Forgiveness 00:00 Tools
Tonglen and Interconnectedness 00:00 Tools
Plan To Stay Open 00:00 Tools
Four Qualities Of Merit 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.5 - Exploring the itch 00:00 Tools
The Formal Practice of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Experiencing Your Emotions 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.6 - The open awareness of your mind 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.8 - The doorway to liberation 00:00 Tools
Slogan: "Of The Two Witnesses, Hold The Principle One" 00:00 Tools
Working With Slogans 00:00 Tools
Foundations Of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Working With Sight 00:00 Tools
Brining All That We Meet To The Path 00:00 Tools
Weather and the 4 Noble Truths 00:00 Tools
The Practice Of Loving-Kindness 00:00 Tools
Abandon Any Hope Of Fruition 00:00 Tools
Establishing Our Intention 00:00 Tools
Closing Dedication And Visualization 00:00 Tools
Four Qualities of Maitri 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Working The Feeling 00:00 Tools
Six Ways Of Compassionate Living 00:00 Tools
Equanimity Meditation 00:00 Tools
Non-Dualistic Experience 00:00 Tools
The Buddha 00:00 Tools
Ways We Avoid The Present 00:00 Tools
Go To Your Body 00:00 Tools
Learning to Stay 00:00 Tools
The Path Of Awakening 00:00 Tools
Verse 2: The nature of mind 00:00 Tools
Verse 3-5: Mindfulness and meditation 00:00 Tools
The Path Of The Bodhisattva 00:00 Tools
Becoming Aware Of Your Intention 00:00 Tools
Widening The Circle Further 00:00 Tools
Compassionate Inquiry 00:00 Tools
The Excellence Of Bodhicitta 00:00 Tools
Living By Precepts 00:00 Tools
See What Is 00:00 Tools
The Four Powers And The Five Strengths 00:00 Tools
100 _ Sounds True _ Noble Heart Retreat _ Pema Chödrön 00:00 Tools
Verses 9-17: The Paramitas 00:00 Tools
Four Limitless Qualities 00:00 Tools
Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Six Sense Perceptions 00:00 Tools
Lesson 1.4 - Ego: the root of the problem 00:00 Tools
Suggestions For Your Practice 00:00 Tools
Disc 02 Track 01 Introduction 00:00 Tools
Enthusiasm 00:00 Tools
No Problem Except Identifying 00:00 Tools
Bringing Up A Strong Emotion 00:00 Tools
Discursive Thought 00:00 Tools
Examine The Nature Of Unborn Awareness 00:00 Tools
The 4 Reminders 00:00 Tools
Growing Up 00:00 Tools
Mindfulness and Refraining 00:00 Tools
A New Take On The Four Limitless Ones Chant 00:00 Tools
Meditation: Undivided Awareness 00:00 Tools
Rest In The Nature Of Alaya, The Essence 00:00 Tools
The Facts Of Life: Egolessness 00:00 Tools
The Facts Of Life: Suffering 00:00 Tools
Recognizing And Expanding The Four Qualities 00:00 Tools
Slogan: "All Activities Should Be Done With One Intention" 00:00 Tools
Be Grateful To Everyone (Continued) 00:00 Tools
Unconditional Confidence: 2 00:00 Tools
The Truth Is Inconvenient 00:00 Tools
The Facts Of Life: Impermanence 00:00 Tools
Four Limitless Ones Concluding Chant 00:00 Tools
Cool Loneliness 00:00 Tools
Continuing The Retreat 00:00 Tools
The Heart Of Everyday Life 00:00 Tools
Noticing When We Go Off 00:00 Tools
Prajna 00:00 Tools
Refraining From Habitual Patterns 00:00 Tools
Discipline 00:00 Tools
The View Of Basic Goodness 00:00 Tools
Getting Unstuck 00:00 Tools
Training Of The Spiritual Warrior 00:00 Tools
Meditation And Prajna 00:00 Tools
Stepping Into Groundlessness 00:00 Tools
Becoming A Slave To Your Desires 00:00 Tools
The Four Reminders 00:00 Tools
Action, speech, and mind 00:00 Tools
Containing The Paradox 00:00 Tools
Sowing Positive Seeds 00:00 Tools
The Essential Paradox 00:00 Tools
The Practice of Creating Space 00:00 Tools
Working With Resistance 00:00 Tools
The Story of Shantideva 00:00 Tools
Warrior Slogans 00:00 Tools
The 4 Stages of Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Traffic-Jam Tonglen 00:00 Tools
Audiobooks Prologue 00:00 Tools
Awakening the Heart 00:00 Tools
Allowing Space For Something New 00:00 Tools
Relative And Ultimate Bodhichitta 00:00 Tools
Lesson 3.4 - Using the breath to get unstuck 00:00 Tools
Introduction: Disc 4 00:00 Tools
Working With Unfavorable Conditions 00:00 Tools
Piercing You To The Heart 00:00 Tools
A Speck Of Nowness 00:00 Tools
Bringing kindness 00:00 Tools
Training in meditation 00:00 Tools
Lesson 2.2 - Shenpa: how we get hooked 00:00 Tools
Lesson 2.1 - Recognizing patterns of habituation 00:00 Tools
Lesson 2.3 - Catching your shenpa in action 00:00 Tools
Meeting the Enemy 00:00 Tools
Introduction: Disc 3 00:00 Tools
Lesson 2.1 - Introduction - The Habit of Distraction 00:00 Tools
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Ani Pema Chödrön (1936 -) was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City. 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 and three grandchildren. While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him. Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Trungpa Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong. Ani Pema served as the director of Karma Dzong in Boulder, Colorado until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for western monks and nuns. Ani Pema currently teaches in the United States and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Ani Pema is interested in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West, as well in continuing her work with western Buddhists of all traditions,sharing ideas and teachings. She has written several books: The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, When Things Fall Apart, The Places that Scare You, No Time To Lose and Practicing Peace in Times of War. All are available from Shambhala Publications. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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