Product Description
For more than eight hundred years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the principles of lojong (literally meaning "mind training") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Awakening Compassion is the first full-length audio retreat on the practice of lojong taught by Pema ChÃ¶drÃ¶n. With many on-the-spot techniques for dealing with jealousy, anger, and fear, Awakening Compassion is a unique resource for bringing compassion into the world and stopping the cycle of suffering in our own lives. Comes complete with study guide covering the fifty-nine traditional lojong slogans.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 9 reviews)

wonderful series by miss maggie

5 Stars
September 14, 2009
Have completely enjoyed Pema Chodron's work on these cd's. It's really nice to hear her voice and to be part of the question and answer sessions with retreat participants. Well worth it.

Wonderful course by Roger Mastrude (Capitola, CA USA)

5 Stars
October 09, 2008
I've taken several classes from Pema Chodron and I agree with all the other reviewers that she's a wonderful teacher. I don't think she's a pure sweetie though, fortunately. Sometimes the best teachers are those who have struggled most with the subject. I think she's a very strong-willed and possibly hot-tempered woman. She uses these qualities to work on herself and to help others. She's a lot of fun, too, and very funny. I particularly love her work, and this class particularly, because it penetrates to the heart of spiritual practice. It doesn't dwell on Buddhist doctrine, which, lord knows, can be dry. I really think you couldn't have a better chance at a genuine spiritual awakening than from these talks.

The sweetest soul I've yet encountered.... by Jackie51 (Oakland, CA)

5 Stars
October 16, 2007
What more can I say? I stumbled unto Ms. Pema several years ago. I was searching for something that spoke deeply to me about how to frame my life/my struggles/my lingering past. I have done many years of traditional therapy/women's groups/etc....and I have had many wonderful teachers over my 54 years....each bringing something fresh and scary and real to the picture...but Pema and her body of tapes/CD's/books, has become the frosting on the cake for me. Somehow falling to sleep at night listening to her sweet and oh-so-knowledgeable voice...well, it seems like the cares of the world fall into place. Don't get me wrong, once you listen to this humorous little Buddhist nun you will be in for one helluva lot of work. She gets under your skin in a good way....and you find yourself opening up to your life as it is...and working with WHATEVER is on your plate. All I can say is, it works. A day at a time....listen to her when you are on the computer/or washing the dishes...or my favorite, trying to fall asleep (made difficult by hormones for some of us..). If there is a light in this world to help illuminate us along the way without dogma or perfectionism, Pema is that light. "Awakening Compassion" is my fav of her CD sets....."Getting Unstuck" is excellent as well....but hey, they are ALL worth listening to....and listening to...and listening to.....for I am quick to forget her words of wisdom, so I have to keep it going. Hope you enjoy her as much as I do. If you have the chance to see her in person as I have been lucky enough to, GO FOR IT. She doesn't tour much anymore as she has just turned 70, but if the opportunity presents itself...take it!

A Great door to understanding by Dr. Jan B. Newman (Clinton, Mt. United States)

5 Stars
August 09, 2005
Years ago I first bought these tapes. Since then I have recommended them to many from beginning seeker to long time student. Pema Chodron teaches mind training in a warm and humorous way to help us learn to become compassionate toward ourselves and others. I sent these tapes to my brother. They were intercepted by my mother who had had a difficult life. She listened to them night and day until the day she died. She constantly told me on the phone how wonderful they were and how often she listened to them. They enabled her to die a peaceful death. I don't think that there can be a more powerful recommendation than that.

Pema is a star: bright, warm, life-enhancing, inspiring by Neal J. Pollock (VA USA)

5 Stars
January 24, 2005
This set of 6 cassette tapes simulates being at her Gompa in Nova Scotia with your eyes closed. She is a Western Tibetan Buddhist nun who studied with Trungpa Rinpoche. She's published several lovely books (e.g. "Places that Scare You" and "Start Where You Are") as well as videos (e.g. "Good Medicine") and tape sets (e.g. "Noble Heart"). This particular item addresses her two main topics of the Lojong mind training and the practice of Tonglen (sending & receiving). The many techniques, meditations, explanations, etc. are VERY useful in daily life even if you don't do regular, daily, spiritual practices. Some Lojong items are: "Make friends with yourself," finding the soft spot within (sometimes hard to do!), resistence to capacitence, "how to do your best when you feel your worst," and "when you ask a question wholeheartedly, you begin to get the answer everywhere." Tonglen means taking in (mentally) other person's suffering and sending them your own happiness instead. Not easy at first, but she provides ways to ease into it and, best of all, a terrific "on-the-spot" method which is FAR easier to employ. This is simply a super set of tapes by a fantastic teacher.

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	Getting Unstuck by Pema Chodron (Author) An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
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