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Pema Chödrön on compassion meditation

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Pema Chödrön
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Pema Chödrön: Tonglen Meditation

A leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life, Pema Chödrön is widely known for her insightful, down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences. Here she shares the practice of Tonglen Meditation.

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Pema Chödrön
2009
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The Exercise That Could Help You Transcend Resentment | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

For over 35 years, Buddhist nun and author Pema Chödrön has inspired millions around the world with her teachings on love, kindness, and compassion. Pema believes that beneath anger, confusion and fear is a basic goodness that connects us all.

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Pema Chödrön
2019
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Pema Chodron - the Practice of Tonglen

In the practice, one visualizes taking in the suffering of oneself and of others on the in-breath, and on the out-breath giving recognition, compassion, and succor to all sentient beings. As such it is a training in altruism.

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Pema Chödrön
2016
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Tonglen on the Spot

Tonglen—the Tibetan practice of “sending and receiving”—can be put to use in everyday situations.

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Pema Chödrön
2002
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How to Practice Tonglen

Pema Chödrön teaches us “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion. With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them relief.

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Pema Chödrön
2021
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Good Medicine for This World

Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön and novelist Alice Walker on how tonglen meditation practice opens our heart, expands our vision, and plants the seeds of love in our lives.

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Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker
1999
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Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

In her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön offers a combination of wisdom, heartfelt reflections, and the signature mix of humor and insight that have made her a beloved figure to turn to during times of change.

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Pema Chödrön
2020
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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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Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives.

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Pema Chödrön
2024
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The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life

Practical instruction in a Tibetan Buddhist method for developing radical compassion from a contemporary master with a gift for making the ancient teachings speak to modern hearts.

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Dzigar Kongtrül, Joseph Waxman, Pema Chödrön (foreword)
2016
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