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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
Author: Pema Chödrön
Overview
When life feels overwhelming—whether through conflict, irritation, or pain—the key to peace lies in working with the mind. In How to Meditate, beloved Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön offers a step-by-step introduction to the essential foundations of meditation. This guide provides both beginners and seasoned practitioners with accessible tools to stabilize the mind, cultivate compassion, and embrace life with openness.
Meditation, Pema explains, is not about escaping difficulties but learning to meet them with unconditional friendliness. Through clear teachings and practical exercises, she shows how meditation becomes a lifelong practice that deepens authenticity, compassion, and joy.
Features
- Step-by-Step Guidance: Covers posture, breath, and practical techniques for establishing a stable practice.
- Transforming Obstacles: Teaches how difficulties and emotions can be embraced as pathways to awakening.
- Shamatha Practice: Introduces calm abiding meditation to stay present with whatever arises.
- Heart-Centered Approach: Encourages unconditional friendliness toward oneself and others.
Who It’s For
- Beginners seeking an accessible, compassionate introduction to meditation.
- Experienced meditators looking to deepen their practice with new perspectives.
- Readers searching for inner peace, authenticity, and resilience in daily life.
- Spiritual seekers drawn to Buddhist wisdom in practical, everyday terms.
About the Author
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and one of the most widely respected teachers of mindfulness and compassion. She studied under Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and received full ordination in 1981. Pema has served as the director of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia and has dedicated her life to sharing Buddhist teachings in the West. Her bestselling books include When Things Fall Apart, The Places That Scare You, and Start Where You Are. Through her nonprofit, The Pema Chödrön Foundation, she continues to support monastic and lay Buddhist communities worldwide.
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