
How to Meditate with Pema Chodron
A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
Author: Pema Chödrön
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Published: 1st January 2008
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- The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to learning to settle to breathing and relaxation
- Gentleness, patience, and humor three ingredients for a well-balanced practice
- The Seven Delights-how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love
- Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
- Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation
- Introduction
- Becoming your own meditation instructor
- The cause of suffering
- Working with your mind
- Learning to settle
- Start with awareness
- Working with posture
- Being faithful to the technique
- Meditation: Being present
- Introduction
- Our habitual patterns
- Being right here
- Meditation: Coming back to the breath
- Coming back into presence
- Meditation: Finding balance
- Attention and relaxation
- Discursive thought
- Gentleness, patience, and humor
- Meditation: Relaxation
- Introduction
- Meditation: Faithful to being present
- Training in letting go
- Uncovering Buddha nature
- Meditation: Uncovering Buddha nature
- Refreshing Your Body
- Waiting for a thought to occur
- Meditation: Waiting, occurrence, dissolve
- Suggestions for your practice
- Introduction
- Balancing and settling
- Meditation: working with thoughts
- Fixation and the thinking process
- Experiencing your emotions
- Working with unfavorable conditions
- Go to your body
- Bringing up a strong emotion
- Meditation: Working the feeling
- Introduction
- Fully here
- No problem except identifying
- Six sense perceptions
- Non-dualistic experience
- Meditation: Undivided awareness
- Noticing when we go off
- Meditation: working with sight
- Meditation: working with touch
Industry Reviews
- Jack Kornfield
Author of A Path with Heart and A Lamp in the Darkness
"Meditation doesn't remove pain, or alleviate the negative energy flowing through the world. This is the information which beloved teacher Chodr?n offers readers at the beginning of this new book. Meditation will, however, relieve suffering, not by changing our outer environment but by turning our attention inward to make peace with ourselves. The aim is not to transcend our feelings of pain and distress. Instead, it is to open our hearts and minds to accept what we are feeling in any given moment even if that feeling is difficult. The gifts that Chodr?n's meditation has to offer are steadfastness, clear awareness, courage, attention to the moment, and learning to not make too big a deal of things. The hallmarks of her teaching are gentle encouragement and loving acceptance. While she provides guidelines for getting started and exercises to keep us going, her greatest teaching is the lesson she shows us on every page: to show compassion for ourselves as we struggle with life's challenges and to base our success on the journey not the goal."
- Anna Jedrziewski
Retailing Insight Magazine
Pema is one of our most beloved and helpful teachers practical, compassionate, and wise. How to Meditate is a great way to take her teachings to heart and develop a meditation practice.
Jack Kornfield
Author of A Path with Heart and A Lamp in the Darkness
Meditation doesn t remove pain, or alleviate the negative energy flowing through the world. This is the information which beloved teacher Chodron offers readers at the beginning of this new book. Meditation will, however, relieve suffering, not by changing our outer environment but by turning our attention inward to make peace with ourselves. The aim is not to transcend our feelings of pain and distress. Instead, it is to open our hearts and minds to accept what we are feeling in any given moment even if that feeling is difficult. The gifts that Chodron s meditation has to offer are steadfastness, clear awareness, courage, attention to the moment, and learning to not make too big a deal of things. The hallmarks of her teaching are gentle encouragement and loving acceptance. While she provides guidelines for getting started and exercises to keep us going, her greatest teaching is the lesson she shows us on every page: to show compassion for ourselves as we struggle with life s challenges and to base our success on the journey not the goal.
Anna Jedrziewski
Retailing Insight Magazine
ISBN: 9781591797944
ISBN-10: 1591797942
Published: 1st January 2008
Format: Audio CD
Language: English
Number of Pages: 5
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: SOUNDS TRUE INC
Country of Publication: US
Edition Type: Unabridged
Dimensions (cm): 14.94 x 13.92 x 2.67
Weight (kg): 0.2
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