Download servers: pCloud, Uploaded, FreakShare, MEGA, Mediafire.Other categories, genre or collection: Buddhist Books, Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice, Personal Development, Buddhist Life & Practice, Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health, Popular Psychology.In her friendly and encouraging style, Pema Chödrön helps us take a bold leap toward a new way of living-one that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world. 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. 'They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. 'This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities,' explains Pema. 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. Description or summary of the audiobook: Best-seller Pema Chödrön 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.Duration of the summary (audio): 7M52S (2 MB).You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, WAV (compression ALZ, RAR, ZIP, LZMA).Her nonprofit, the Pema Chödrön Foundation, was set up to assist in this purpose. She is interested in helping to establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West, as well as continuing her work with Western Buddhists of all traditions, sharing ideas and teachings. She 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. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for Western monks and nuns. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.Īni 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. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him. She attended Miss Porters School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. 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. While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. Pema has two children and three grandchildren. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others.” Pema shares insights and exercises from her lifetime of practice that we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities and help us to take a bold leap toward a new way of living-one that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.Īni Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. ![]() “They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. “This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities,” explains Pema. So how can we get unstuck? Drawing on time-honored Buddhist teachings on shenpa (all the attachments and compulsions that cause us suffering), Pema Chödrön shows how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, addiction, and so much more-and, most of all, how we can liberate ourselves from them. Ever feel trapped in the same old habits and painful emotions time and time again? These are patterns we all face, and sometimes they feel impossible to shake.
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