If you looking for pema chodron books then you are right place. We are searching for the best pema chodron books on the market and analyze these products to provide you the best choice.
Reviews
1. Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
Feature
Living BeautifullyDescription
The best-selling author and spiritual teacher shares practices for living with wisdom and integrity even in confusing and uncertain situations.Is it possible to live well when the very ground we stand on is shaky? Yes, says everyone's favorite Buddhist nun, it's even possible to live beautifully, compassionately, and happily on shaky groundand the secret is: the ground is always shaky. Pema shows how using a traditional Buddhist practice called the Three Vows or Three Commitments, offering us a way to relax into profound sanity in the midst of whatever non-sanity is happening around us. Just making these simple aspirations can change the way we look at the world and can provide us with a lifetime of material for spiritual practice.
The Three Commitments are three methods for embracing the chaotic, uncertain, dynamic, challenging nature of our situation as a path to awakening. The first of the commitments, traditionally called the Pratimoksha Vow, is the foundation for personal liberation. This is a commitment to doing our best to not cause harm with our actions or words or thoughts, a commitment to being good to each other. It provides a structure within which we learn to work with our thoughts and emotions, and to refrain from speaking or acting out of confusion. The next step toward being comfortable with groundlessness is a commitment to helping others, traditionally called the Bodhisattva Vow. It is a commitment to dedicate our lives to keeping our hearts and minds open, and nurturing our compassion with the longing to ease the suffering of the world. The last of the three commitments, traditionally known as the Samaya Vow, is a resolve to embrace the world just as it is, without bias; a resolve to see everything we encounter, good and bad, pleasant and painful, as a manifestation of awakened energy. It is a commitment to see everything and anything as a means by which we can awaken further.
2. The Pocket Pema Chodron (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Feature
Pocket Pema ChodronDescription
Here is a treasury of 108 short selections from the best-selling books of Pema Chdrn, the beloved Buddhist nun. Designed for on-the-go inspiration, this collection offers teachings on:becoming fearless
breaking free of destructive patterns
developing patience, kindness, and joy amid our everyday struggles
unlocking our natural warmth, intelligence, and goodness
3. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Feature
Comfortable with Uncertainty 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and CompassionDescription
In her wise and friendly manner, Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron lays out the basic training for becoming a warrior-bodhisattva: one who courageously takes up the path of awakening compassion for both self and others. This gathering of 108 short stand-alone readings - one for every bead in a traditional Buddhist mala - is designed to help readers cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. Buddhist and non-Buddhists alike will find inspiration in her teachings.4. Pema Chdrn's Compassion Cards: Teachings for Awakening the Heart in Everyday Life
Feature
Pema Chodron s Compassion Cards Teachings for Awakening the Heart in Everyday LifeDescription
59 beautifully designed cards on the classic Buddhist practice of lojong for everyday inspiration and contemplation--with instructive commentaries by Pema Chdrn to make the teachings accessible and applicable to contemporary life.Let compassion and fearlessness guide you and youll live wisely and effectively in good times and bad. Here Pema Chdrn offers a powerful method to awaken these qualities using a practice called lojong, which has been a primary focus of her teachings and personal practice for many years. In this boxed set, she provides all the tools needed to practice it in your own life. It includes:
* an introduction to the practice
* fifty-nine cards representing the full set of lojong teachings for daily inspiration and contemplation
* practical commentary from Pema on the reverse of each card
* a card stand for easy display
* and an audio download of Pemas teachings on the related practice of tonglen.
These cards were previously published as part of The Compassion Box.
5. Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
Feature
Taking the Leap Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and FearsDescription
Best-seller Pema Chdrn draws on the Buddhist concept of shenpa to help us see how certain habits of mind tend to hook us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their hold on us and we can begin to change our lives for the better.This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities, explains Pema. They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others.
This book gives us the insights and practices we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities. In her friendly and encouraging style, Pema Chdrn helps us take a bold leap toward a new way of livingone that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.
6. How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
Feature
How to Meditate A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your MindDescription
Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan nun presents her first book exploring in depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.
When we look for a meditation teacher, we want someone who has an intimate knowledge of the path. That's why so many have turned to Pema Chdrn, whose gentle yet straightforward guidance has been a lifesaver for both first-time and experienced meditators. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book that explores in-depth what she considers the essentials for an evolving practice that helps you live in a wholehearted way.
More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover:
- The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
- The Seven Delights-how moments of diffi culty 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
Here is in indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over.
Pema is one of our most beloved and helpful teacherspractical, 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
This new book is a great compilation of meditation instruction which she has personal given to many of her students over the years. These instructions have brought so much help to others that it has made her one of the most loved and revered Buddhist teacher in this modern world. With a brilliant mind and an absolutely cheerful attitude toward life, she practices what she teaches. She is a great support and friend to thousands of readers, and I am very sure that this book will help many in their everyday lives, as she makes this genuine attempt to reach us all.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Excerpt
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We cant escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grandand it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.
There are numerous ways to work with the mind. One of the most effective ways is through the tool of sitting meditation. Sitting meditation opens us to each and every moment of our life. Each moment is totally unique and unknown. Our mental world is seemingly predictable and graspable. We believe that thinking through all the events and to-dos of our life will provide us with ground and security. But its all a fantasy, and this very moment, free of conceptual overlay, is completely unique. It is absolutely unknown. Weve never experienced this very moment before, and the next moment will not be the same as the one we are in now. Meditation teaches us how to relate to life directly, so that we can truly experience the present moment, free from conceptual overlay.
Table of Contents
Part One: The Technique of Meditation
- Preparing for Practice and Making the Commitment
- Stabilizing the Mind
- The Six Points of Posture
- Breath: The Practice of Letting Go
- Attitude: Keep Coming Back
- Unconditional Friendliness
- You Are Your Own Meditation Instructor
- The Monkey Mind
- The Three Levels of Discursive Thought
- Thoughts as the Object of Meditation
- Regard All Dharmas as Dreams
Part Three: Working With Emotions
- Becoming Intimate with Our Emotions
- The Space within the Emotion
- Emotions as the Object of Meditation
- Getting Our Hands Dirty
- Hold the Experience
- Breaking with the Emotion
- Drop the Story and Find the Feeling
Part Four: Working with Sense Perception
- The Sense Perceptions
- The Interconnection of All Perceptions
Part Five: Opening Your Heart to Include Everything
- Giving Up the Struggle
- The Seven Delights
- The Bearable Lightness of Being
- Beliefs
- Relaxing with Groundlessness
- Create a Circle of Practitioners
- Cultivate a Sense of Wonder
- The Way of the Bodhisattva
7. Awakening Loving-Kindness (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Description
Inspiration and encouragement for cultivating kindness--by embracing the joy, suffering, confusion, and brilliance of our everyday lives.Do you want to be a more compassionate person, confident and unafraid to love yourself and the world around you unconditionally, but arent sure how? We often look far and wide for guidance to become better people, as though the answers were somewhere out there. But Pema Chdrn suggests that the best and most direct teacher for awakening loving-kindness is in fact your very own life. Based on talks given during a one-month meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, where Pema lives and teaches, her teachings here focus on learning how to see the events of our lives as the perfect material for learning to love ourselves and our world playfully and wholeheartedlyand to live in our skin fearlessly, without aggression, harshness, or shame. This is instruction for embarking on the greatest adventure of all, to come alive to your inherent human kindness.
8. No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
Feature
No Time to Lose A Timely Guide to the Way of the BodhisattvaDescription
Over the years, Pema Chdrn's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In No Time to Lose Pema invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth how we can awaken the softness of our hearts and develop true confidence amid the challenges of daily living.Pema reveals the traditional Buddhist teachings that guide her own life: those of The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara), a text written by the eighth-century sage Shantideva. This treasured Buddhist work is remarkably relevant for our times, describing the steps we can take to cultivate courage, caring, and joythe keys to healing ourselves and our troubled world. Pema offers us a highly practical and engaging commentary on this essential text, explaining how its profound teachings can be applied to our daily lives.
9. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Feature
When Things Fall Apart Heart Advice for Difficult Times 20th Anniversary EditionDescription
Pema Chdrn's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth--now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema--makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library.How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apartwhen we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chdrn suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.
10. The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
Feature
Great product!Description
Lifelong guidance for learning to change the way we relate to the scary and difficult moments of our lives, showing us how we can use all of our difficulties and fears as a way to soften our hearts and open us to greater kindness.We always have a choice in how we react to the circumstances of our lives. We can let them harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and allow our inherent human kindness to shine through. Here Pema Chdrn provides essential tools for dealing with the many difficulties that life throws our way, teaching us how to awaken our basic human goodness and connect deeply with othersto accept ourselves and everything around us complete with faults and imperfections. She shows the strength that comes from staying in touch with whats happening in our lives right now and helps us unmask the ways in which our egos cause us to resist life as it is. If we go to the places that scare us, Pema suggests, we just might find the boundless life weve always dreamed of.
11. The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness
Feature
ShambhalaDescription
This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestationsembracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and confusion that characterizes the human experience. Pema Chdrn shows us the profound value of our situation of "no escape" from the ups and downs of life.12. Pema Chodron 2018 Engagement Datebook Calendar
Description
The Pema Chdrn: Awakening the Heart weekly engagement calendar features quotes from Chdrn's book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change and is designed to help us cultivate compassion, courage, and awareness within the challenges of daily life through mindfulness and Eastern philosophy. These insightful quotes are paired with beautifully evocative and meditative nature photography.
- 6.5" x 8.5" engagement calendar (13" x 8.5" open).
- 12 full-color monthly tabs featuring stunning nature photography paired with wisdom quotes from Pema Chdrn.
- The perfect inspirational art gift.
- Includes a Notes section for journaling extra information throughout the year.
- Hardcover datebook with Wire-O binding and elastic band closure.
- 52 weekly pages with month- and year-at-a-glance.
- Includes a handy pocket to store extra papers.
- Printed on paper sourced from a combination of sustainably managed forests and recycled materials.
- Published by Amber Lotus, an independent carbon-negative US company that has planted more than half a million trees since 2008.
- This calendar features US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and important observances of the world's major religions.
Pema Chdrn is a leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life. She is widely known for her engaging and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences. Chdrn has authored several best-selling books, including Comfortable with Uncertainty, When Things Fall Apart, and Start Where You Are.
13. Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
Description
Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available. In Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality; a pre-emotional feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort often with harmful habits. With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at both the itch and the scratch: what Tibetan Buddhists call ... shenpa.14. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)
Feature
Start Where You Are A Guide to Compassionate LivingDescription
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chdrn presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chdrn frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: "Always apply only a joyful state of mind," "Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness," and "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment."Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.
15. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown