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12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation

By Matthew Thorpe, Rachel Link — 2020

Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.

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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect.

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Pema Chödrön
2025
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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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Pema Chödrön
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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It’s Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path

On the spiritual path we speak of enlightenment.

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Dzigar Kongtrul, Pema Chödron (foreword)
2005
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A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.

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Rod Meade Sperry (editor), Shambhala Sun (editor)
2014
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The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness

It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves—and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms is simple but not easy: We must learn to open ourselves up to life in all its manifestations.

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Pema Chödrön
2018
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Pema Chödrön: Coping with Chronic Illness

Excerpt from "The Freedom To Love" (c) 2015 Pema Chödrön, used with permission from the publisher, Sounds True. Pema discusses coping with chronic illness.

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Pema Chödrön
2019
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Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training.

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Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön (foreword)
2003
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