Don't Bite the Hook
Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions
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Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
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Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children—and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema Chödrön. It is possible to relate constructively to the inevitable shocks, losses, and frustrations of life so that we can find true happiness. The key, Pema explains, is not biting the "hook" of our habitual responses. In this recorded weekend retreat, Pema draws on Buddhist teachings from The Way of the Bodhisattva to reveal how we can:
* stay centered in the midst of difficulty
* improve stressful relationships
* step out of the downward spiral of self-hatred
* awaken compassion for ourselves and others
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FYI: Subset of “Be Grateful to Everyone “
- By mlanely on 11-27-19
By: Pema Chodron
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Getting Unstuck
- Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality; a "pre-emotional" feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort, often with harmful habits. With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at "both the itch and the scratch": what Tibetan Buddhists call shenpa.
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I'm Still Scratching...But...
- By Kryton2725 on 05-28-08
By: Pema Chödrön
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Perfect Just as You Are
- Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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According to Pema Chodrön, spiritual practice has nothing to do with “self-improvement” since, as the title of this audiobook explains, you are already perfect just as you are. Deep down, our ultimate nature consists of the four limitless qualities—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—and these qualities cannot be improved upon.
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Taped retreat lectures
- By Barb L. on 01-12-19
By: Pema Chodron
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The Pema Chodron Audio Collection
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Pema Chodron, one of the West's most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today's world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one audiobook set.
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Ancient insights for a Modern Audience
- By Tricia, Audible Editor on 04-11-12
By: Pema Chödrön
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Making Friends with Your Mind
- The Key to Contentment
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Have you ever found yourself thinking your way into a tangle of fret, frustration, or gloom? And then something small - a few kind words, the sun glancing through the clouds, a warm cup of tea - gave you a welcome pause from all your inner chatter? With Making Friends with Your Mind, that's what Pema Chödrön helps us to do, not by chance but with our full intention: to stop fighting with our thoughts and reopen ourselves to wonder as naturally as we breathe.
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Love Pema but....
- By Cenandra on 05-11-17
By: Pema Chödrön
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The Fearless Heart
- The Practice of Living with Courage and Compassion
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Fear and guilt are two of the greatest challenges we face on the spiritual path—but there is a way to transform these painful feelings into courageous self-acceptance. Here Pema Chödrön presents the five aphorisms for developing fearlessness that were given to Machig Lapdronma, one of Tibetan Buddhism's greatest female teachers.
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- By Claudinchka on 05-13-19
By: Pema Chodron
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This Moment Is the Perfect Teacher
- Ten Buddhist Teachings on Cultivating Inner Strength and Compassion
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Lojong is a powerful Tibetan Buddhist practice created especially for training the mind to work with the challenges of everyday living. It teaches our hearts to soften, reframes our attitude toward difficulty, and allows us to discover a wellspring of inner strength. In this recorded retreat, Pema Chödrön introduces the lojong teachings and explains how we can apply them to any situation in our life—because, as Pema says, "every moment is an opportunity for awakening."
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FYI: Subset of “Be Grateful to Everyone “
- By mlanely on 11-27-19
By: Pema Chodron
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Getting Unstuck
- Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality; a "pre-emotional" feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort, often with harmful habits. With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at "both the itch and the scratch": what Tibetan Buddhists call shenpa.
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I'm Still Scratching...But...
- By Kryton2725 on 05-28-08
By: Pema Chödrön
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Perfect Just as You Are
- Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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According to Pema Chodrön, spiritual practice has nothing to do with “self-improvement” since, as the title of this audiobook explains, you are already perfect just as you are. Deep down, our ultimate nature consists of the four limitless qualities—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—and these qualities cannot be improved upon.
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Taped retreat lectures
- By Barb L. on 01-12-19
By: Pema Chodron
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The Pema Chodron Audio Collection
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- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Pema Chodron, one of the West's most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today's world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one audiobook set.
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Ancient insights for a Modern Audience
- By Tricia, Audible Editor on 04-11-12
By: Pema Chödrön
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Making Friends with Your Mind
- The Key to Contentment
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Have you ever found yourself thinking your way into a tangle of fret, frustration, or gloom? And then something small - a few kind words, the sun glancing through the clouds, a warm cup of tea - gave you a welcome pause from all your inner chatter? With Making Friends with Your Mind, that's what Pema Chödrön helps us to do, not by chance but with our full intention: to stop fighting with our thoughts and reopen ourselves to wonder as naturally as we breathe.
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Love Pema but....
- By Cenandra on 05-11-17
By: Pema Chödrön
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Start Where You Are
- A Guide to Compassionate Living
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotté
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Start Where You Are is an indispensable audiobook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön offers guidance on how we can accept our flaws and embrace ourselves wholeheartedly as a prerequisite for developing compassion.
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No thank you
- By Susan V. on 06-22-21
By: Pema Chodron
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Be Grateful to Everyone
- An In-Depth Guide to the Practice of Lojong
- By: Pema Chodron
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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One of the best ways to bring meditation off the cushion and into everyday life is to practice lojong (or mind training). For centuries, Tibetans have used fifty-nine powerful mind-training slogans as a way to transform life’s ordinary situations into opportunities for awakening. In this audio program, Pema Chödrön presents her definitive audio teachings on lojong. She offers an overview of the practice and goes on to provide inspiring commentary on the slogans while paying special attention to how to apply them on the spot in our daily lives.
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Best Heart
- By rally_squirrel_west on 03-13-18
By: Pema Chodron
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Journey to Fulfillment
- Six Keys for Opening to Life
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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The Sanskrit word paramitas means "actions that take us to the other shore". In this inspiring audio program, beloved teacher and author Pema Chödrön shows us how to use the six paramitas to move out of isolation and fear and into the compassion and courage of our awakened Buddha nature.
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Top 5
- By Alex Fetters on 03-22-21
By: Pema Chödrön
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Three Steps to Courage
- Working Compassionately with Difficult Emotions
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Beloved Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön has a unique gift for helping those of all faiths to work with their most difficult inner and outer challenges. In this supportive series of talks, listeners will join her at her best - showing us the way back to our wisest and most heartful selves. Here, Pema shares three simple, time-honored steps to practice when we are in pain or crisis.
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Disappointed
- By Dr. Jan B. Newman on 07-03-20
By: Pema Chödrön
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Walking the Walk
- Putting the Teachings into Practice When It Matters Most
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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It's one thing to hear a life-changing truth or to have a conceptual grasp on spiritual wisdom. But it’s another thing to "walk the walk" - or to put into practice the good advice we've been given. What does it mean to walk the walk in our everyday lives? According to Pema Chödrön, it means being down-to-earth, genuine, and perhaps most importantly, it means engaging in the teachings in order to actively confront anything and everything we’ve heretofore rejected in our attempts to find happiness.
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Pema's like warm honey.
- By CJ on 01-06-15
By: Pema Chödrön
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Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
- Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. "What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?" begins Pema. "We say 'I'm a failure.'" But what if failing wasn't just "okay"... but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?
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The perfect listen at the perfect time!
- By BARBARA J NELSON on 01-22-16
By: Pema Chödrön
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When Pain is the Doorway
- Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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What if the full sense of our aliveness were only to be found amidst our most challenging times and difficult experiences? In pain and crisis, teaches Pema Chödrön, there lies a hidden doorway to freedom that appears to us only when we're sure that there is no way out. In these intimate audio learning sessions, Pema Chödrön helps us distinguish the triggers or external events that we blame for our suffering from the deeper habitual patterns that feed our anger, fear, or sadness.
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Crucial topic. sound is fine.
- By ClosetGeek on 10-12-13
By: Pema Chödrön
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The Places That Scare You
- A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This audiobook teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
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GREAT book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-25-18
By: Pema Chödrön
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Fully Alive
- A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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In this recorded retreat, based on the program Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change held at Omega Institute, Pema Chödrön and her teaching assistant, Meg Wheatley, provide a wealth of wisdom for learning to step right into the river: to be completely, fearlessly present even in the hardest times, the most difficult situations. It's the secret of being fully alive.
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Brief
- By lo on 08-10-18
By: Pema Chödrön
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Embracing the Unknown
- Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Pema Chödrön presents her first live talk on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With Embracing the Unknown, she reveals how one of Buddhism’s most revered texts contains essential guidance not only for understanding the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth - but also profound wisdom for living fearlessly in “the bardo of this life”. Experience one of today’s most beloved spiritual teachers at her best as she helps us navigate fear, doubt, and uncertainty with a compassionate and open heart.
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so helpful and insightful
- By debadventurer on 02-23-19
By: Pema Chödrön
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Welcoming the Unwelcome
- Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Claire Foy
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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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. In an increasingly polarized world, Pema shows us how to strengthen our abilities to find common ground, even when we disagree, and influence our environment in positive ways.
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One of Pema's best audiobooks
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-20
By: Pema Chödrön
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Bodhisattva Mind
- Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering
- By: Pema Chödrön
- Narrated by: Pema Chodron
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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What if you could cultivate the mind of a bodhisattva -- one who has dedicated one's life to the benefit of others? According to Pema Chödrön, best-selling author and American-born Buddhist nun, you can. On Bodhisattva Mind, she examines sheshin, or "guarding alertness", and the other qualities of mind we need to develop on the path to enlightenment.
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lots of people vote and don't write reviews
- By Suzanna Davis on 03-09-11
By: Pema Chödrön
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- K. T. in Alberta
- 04-21-18
So concise and precise!
Total pleasure to listen to this thorough yet simple commentary on Shantideva's text on Patience. Instructive in a practical way, illuminative, lots of real life examples. Seems to be an actual recording of a talk given to a small meditation class.
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- ValeriaMaria
- 07-08-18
another powerful teaching!
A must if you have been grappling with anger issues(and who hasn't) . Pema's wisdom is so powerful but delivered so gently.
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- Kathy L Rose
- 05-25-20
Don't bite the hook
Outstanding book..loved having Pema voice read the book. She really teaches one how to let go and keep your peace of mind with difficult situations as well as not so difficult. After fifteen minutes of listening, I am restored to complete peace of mind.
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- Whistle 1
- 11-26-18
Really Surprised by this!
I am a hard-core skeptic. I do not believe in reincarnation or Karma or anything like that. Yet I found this talk really interesting and super useful. Definitely recommended!
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- S. Kamp
- 09-05-19
everyone should listen to this
in 2019's political climate these talks hold the answers to all that is wrong with the world. please share with everyone.
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- Max Cooper
- 04-08-19
Great
Great talk by Pema, based on Shantideva's work on "Patience." But about a lot more than just what we think of as "patience."
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- Sonia
- 11-06-18
Amazing!
Great book full of wisdom! Highly recommended for anyone dealing with hanger. Great tools to apply in your life.
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- Frederick Stewart
- 02-13-20
It is a nice long Dharma talk
It was a very informative, enlightening Dharma talk. Not an audiobook but still very good.
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- Krystalie
- 02-19-20
Life Changing!
Impactful with a witty, entertaining narration that is simply impossible to stop listening to. I drove around a little longer just to listen to this in the car. Instantly began applying the teachings I learned from this lecture (it is a lecture with an audience), into situations in my life the very next day. Definitely will listen over and over when I need a little reminder that we are all doing our best as human beings.
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- Clarissa
- 03-26-21
Well said
Pena Chodron uses humor to really explain how to be a happier person. She points out to not just believe her but to try it. She gives such small simple things to try that anyone can do it!
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