You can't get away from suffering.  That's the good news, teaches Pema Chödrön.  For at the core of your most painful experiences, perhaps more than anywhere else, you will find the seeds of your awakening. 

On Noble Heart, this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties.  The noble heart, Ane Pema teaches, is one that sheds its armor, opening itself fearlessly to both heartache and delight.  Using special meditations and traditional teachings, Pema Chödrön leads you, step-by-step, toward a full realization of your true strength, the strength that can come only through embracing the pain of your own experience. 

Noble Heart was recorded as it happened, within the peaceful shrine room of Gampo Abbey, Ane Pema's home on the cliffs of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.  Structured so that you can create your own retreat at home or at your meditation center, this complete curriculum brings you key teachings about how to recognize and cultivate the soft spot that is the gateway to your own noble heart. 

Here is the promise of the Four Limitless Ones—maitri (loving-kindness), compassion, joy, and equanimity—and down-to-earth advice about how to draw strength from them every day, in any situation.  Here, too, are the treasured teachings about the Six Paramitas: the Buddha's own map of the journey to enlightenment.  Learn how to connect with your innately unlimited friendliness, and how it can grow big enough to contain the entire world. 

With four complete meditations, unique heart teachings, and Ane Pema's trademark humor, Noble Heart invites you to discover for yourself the compassion and wisdom that have established her as a leading voice in American Buddhism.  Includes more than nine hours of direct teachings from this revered acharya (master teacher), as well as a 48-page study guide. 

Highlights:

The four great catalysts of awakening, and how to begin integrating them into your life today

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Customer Reviews

This is a wonderful program recorded from a retreat, and covers more basics that are helpful in understanding some of Pema's latter talks.  It's very interesting listening to her at an earlier stage in her enlightenment, and to compare how her heart has softened even more since.  I strongly recommend this as an essential part to any Chodron teachings.  The pdf booklet that accompanies the program provides all the definitions that sometimes she assumes we understand and remember...and that alone is worth the price.  Thanks Pema! 

Anything written or spoken by Pema is worth listening to.  These CDs are an excellent supplement to her many books.  I love the warm tone of her calm presentation of these spiritual teachings, and I also love her sense of self-effacing humor that comes through in her delivery. 

This wonderful set of teachings is both a transmission and a course of instruction in all the opening-the-heart practices of the Mahayana path to enlightenment.  With talks, guided meditations, practice instructions, assignments and Q & A, Ani Pema teaches the foundational practices for arousing Bodhicitta for oneself and all beings.  There is even an accompanying booklet.  Good for individuals or classes, and for beginners as well advanced practitioners.  You can never have too much of the these basic teachings. 

(Posted on 8/13/2010)

12 Item(s)

Details

CD

Contents

12 CDs (570 minutes); 1 Study guide (45 pages)

Date Published

October 01, 2004

ISBN-10

1-59179-230-4

ISBN-13

978-1-59179-230-7

Dimensions

7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches

Product Code

AF00877D

Audio Download

Contents

1 Audio download (9 hours, 30 minutes)

Filetypes

M4B, MP3, PDF, ZIP

Date Published

October 01, 2004

ISBN-10

1-60407-244-X

ISBN-13

978-1-60407-244-0

Product Code

AF00877W

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