How to Meditate with Pema Chodron

When it comes to meditation, Pema Chodron is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost teachers. Yet she's never offered an introductory course on audio - until now.

In How to Meditate with Pema Chodron, subtitled "A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind", the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and best-selling author presents her first complete spoken-word course for those new to meditation. Through traditional insights and her personal guidance in 12 sitting sessions, Chodron will help you honestly meet with, and compassionately relate to, your mind as you explore:

The basics of mindfulness awareness practice, from proper posture, to learning to settle, to breathing and relaxation

Gentleness, patience, and humor - three ingredients for a well-balanced practice

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

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• Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
• The Pema Chodron Audio Collection
• Embracing the Unknown: Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
• Bodhisattva Mind: Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering
• Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions
• Perfect Just as You Are: Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
• Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening
• The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
• The Three Commitments: Walking the Path of Liberation