The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
English | 2001 | MP3@128 kbps | 10h 46m | 591.87 MB
Author: Pema Chödrön
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness:
‘It’s short, and so beautifully written that the reading is a pleasure — speaks to people of all religious persuasions. The clearsighted practicality of Chodron’s approach to the practice of meditation is a persuasive introduction to its benefits in our daily lives. Her voice is , understanding, gently humorous, always kind and seemingly infinitely wise.’ The LA Times ‘As one of Pema Chodron’s grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart.’ Alice Walker ‘It is a lively and accessible take on ancient techniques for transforming terror and pain into joy and compassion.’ O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine “Pema’s deep experience and her fresh way of looking at things are like mountain water — clear and deep.’ Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.
Going to Places That Scare You:
Recorded live in Berkeley, CA 2001. This is not the same material as Pema Chodron’s book of a similar title. These talks follow the 5 slogans of Machig Labdron. This program addresses learning to practice with fear, aversion, and suffering in the context of the great motivation to benefit others. Pema Chodron presents the practice of tonglen (sending and taking) in several forms. Excellent guided meditations. Talk 1: Reveal Your Hidden Faults. Unobstructed love, and knowing the nature of fear. Introduction to the 5 slogans of Machig Labdron. Working with shame and guilt. Practice: “forgiveness tonglen”. Talk 2: Approach What You Find Repulsive. Training in being present. Three levels of awareness. Bearing witness to suffering. Practice: “aversion tonglen”. Talk 3: Help Those You Think You Cannot Help. Nurturing bodhicitta. Fear is the “fear of fear.” Trungpa Rinpoche on “Working with Negativity.” Practice: tonglen with our resistance to helping, and with those whom we do not want to help. Talk 4: That Which You Are Attached To: Give That. Trungpa Rinpoche: “The Lions Roar.” “Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, transmuting” experience. Offering practice. Talk 5: Go To The Places That Scare You. Summary of instructions, contemplations, and practices. 6 questions from the discussion groups. Machig Labdron and the Chod practice. Anecdote of Ezra Bada. About being a student: Ani Pema Chodron’s teachers, lineage, sangha, Shambhala centers.
