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  • Coming Closer to Ourselves

  • Making Everything the Path of Awakening
  • By: Pema Chödrön
  • Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
  • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (880 ratings)

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Coming Closer to Ourselves

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
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Publisher's summary

How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and Experiences

In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chödrön for guidance? Many say that it’s her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism - not just conceptually, but directly from her heart to ours. In these inspiring sessions, she teaches us how to give that compassion to the person we neglect most often - ourselves. With her, you will explore:

  • What to do when it feels impossible to be kind to ourselves.
  • In challenging relationships and situations, how to let go of our story and see what’s really happening.
  • Cultivating inner comfort and greater kindness toward our bodies.
  • Leaning into frustration, sadness, and fear with a spirit of trust and intimacy.
  • Many other insights and recommendations to befriend the difficult places within us.

Through gentle and clear guidance, Coming Closer to Ourselves shows us how, even in the tumult of life’s uncertainties, we can begin with a glimmer of curiosity, move closer into our experiences, and discover a place of welcome and refuge within.

©2012 Pema Chödrön (P)2012 Pema Chödrön
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Classic Pema!

What can I say, I am a Pema Fan girl. This made me laugh, made me question and as always inspired me to do more Dharma work.

Perfect from beginning to end and back again.

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Always Learning From Pema's Wisdom

I always learn so much from listening. To Pema's words. It's the same story but bears repeating.

I highly recommend her book.

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What's not to love.

Would you consider the audio edition of Coming Closer to Ourselves to be better than the print version?

A set of recent lectures covering how to deal with life's difficulties from a Buddhist perspective. An isle of calm in a sea of turmoil

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Beautiful Wisdom

A beautiful work of wisdom served up so deliciously that anyone a d everyone can benefit from this book. It is truly wonderful teaching regardless of your identity. Please please yourself w the gift of receiving it.

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This is my favorite of Pema Chodrans lectures so far. I’ve listened to maybe 10.

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Incredible! Magical!

Truly one of the most magnificent things I've ever heard. Pema Chodron is a treasure.

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really enjoy her delivery

she did a really great job of keeping your attenrion and describing what she was saying.

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Sweet, tender, accessible wisdom seasoned with hilarity

Listening to these talks by Pema which seem to be five weekly lessons in a course she taught, was an amazing, gentle way to become introduced to buddhism and provided a whole new perspective on learning versus many of the other books I've been reading by people who seem to have discovered their own approaches.

By contrast, Pema, is it gifted teacher of the already known and does a masterful job of explaining the basics of Buddhism in an easy to understand, yet complex and in-depth fashion which was replete with new insights and transmutational thoughts for me, personally.

In particular, she explores the concept of anger as wisdom often towards the end of the book. This is a profound transformation (anger into wisdom instead of destruction) that can do a world of good in this day and age.

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There is only one Pema!

I have been practicing for years and even though I've probably heard this course before it still deeply moved me. She just had a way of presenting these teachings like no other.

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Pearls of wisdom

This book explorers more formal Buddhist terms sprinkled with great stories. there are some Pearls of Wisdom throughout the readings.

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