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How to Meditate Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

by Pema Chödrön
How to Meditate Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

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"When something is bothering you — a person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is bothering you — you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we'll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world that we live in."

--Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book exploring in-depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover:

  • The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
  • The Seven Delights — how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love
  • Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
  • Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation

"I think ultimately why we practice is so that we can become completely loving people, and this is what the world needs," writes Pema Chödrön. How to Meditate is a long-overdue book from this wise teacher to assist each one of us in this virtuous goal.

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***How to Meditate Has Been Named One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2013***

Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan nun presents her first book exploring in depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.

When we look for a meditation teacher, we want someone who has an intimate knowledge of the path. That's why so many have turned to Pema Chodron, whose gentle yet straightforward guidance has been a lifesaver for both first-time and experienced meditators. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book that explores in-depth what she considers the essentials for an evolving practice that helps you live in a wholehearted way.

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, compassion, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind to embrace the fullness of our experience as we discover:
  • The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
  • The Seven Delights-how moments of diffi culty can become doorways to awakening and love
  • Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
  • Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation

Here is in indispensable book from the meditation teacher who remains a first choice for students the world over.


"Pema is one of our most beloved and helpful teachers--practical, compassionate, and wise. How to Meditate is a great way to take her teachings to heart and develop a meditation practice."
--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and A Lamp in the Darkness

"This new book is a great compilation of meditation instruction which she has personal given to many of her students over the years. These instructions have brought so much help to others that it has made her one of the most loved and revered Buddhist teacher in this modern world. With a brilliant mind and an absolutely cheerful attitude toward life, she practices what she teaches. She is a great support and friend to thousands of readers, and I am very sure that this book will help many in their everyday lives, as she makes this genuine attempt to reach us all."
--Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche


Excerpt

The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand--and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

There are numerous ways to work with the mind. One of the most effective ways is through the tool of sitting meditation. Sitting meditation opens us to each and every moment of our life. Each moment is totally unique and unknown. Our mental world is seemingly predictable and graspable. We believe that thinking through all the events and to-dos of our life will provide us with ground and security. But it's all a fantasy, and this very moment, free of conceptual overlay, is completely unique. It is absolutely unknown. We've never experienced this very moment before, and the next moment will not be the same as the one we are in now. Meditation teaches us how to relate to life directly, so that we can truly experience the present moment, free from conceptual overlay.


Table of Contents

Part One: The Technique of Meditation
  1. Preparing for Practice and Making the Commitment
  2. Stabilizing the Mind
  3. The Six Points of Posture
  4. Breath: The Practice of Letting Go
  5. Attitude: Keep Coming Back
  6. Unconditional Friendliness
  7. You Are Your Own Meditation Instructor
Part Two: Working With Thoughts
  1. The Monkey Mind
  2. The Three Levels of Discursive Thought
  3. Thoughts as the Object of Meditation
  4. Regard All Dharmas as Dreams

Part Three: Working With Emotions

  1. Becoming Intimate with Our Emotions
  2. The Space within the Emotion
  3. Emotions as the Object of Meditation
  4. Getting Our Hands Dirty
  5. Hold the Experience
  6. Breaking with the Emotion
  7. Drop the Story and Find the Feeling

Part Four: Working with Sense Perception

  1. The Sense Perceptions
  2. The Interconnection of All Perceptions

Part Five: Opening Your Heart to Include Everything
  1. Giving Up the Struggle
  2. The Seven Delights
  3. The Bearable Lightness of Being
  4. Beliefs
  5. Relaxing with Groundlessness
  6. Create a Circle of Practitioners
  7. Cultivate a Sense of Wonder
  8. The Way of the Bodhisattva

Synopsis

Library Journal's Best Books of 2013 selection
"When something is bothering you-a person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is bothering you-you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we'll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world that we live in."
--Pema Ch dr n

Pema Ch dr n is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book exploring in-depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.

More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover:

The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness
- The Seven Delights--how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love
- Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises
- Thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight"-instead of obstacles-in meditation
"I think ultimately why we practice is so that we can become completely loving people, and this is what the world needs," writes Pema Ch dr n. How to Meditate is a long-overdue book from this wise teacher to assist each one of us in this virtuous goal.


About the Author

Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.


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Pema Chodron is a wise soul who delights and inspires. In a casual and self-describing way, she gives the reader gives insight into the practical steps of how to meditate, and also the mindful steps. For the beginner or the long time meditator, she offers something for all.

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ISBN:
9781604079333
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
05/01/2013
Publisher:
SOUNDS TRUE PUBLISHING
Pages:
175
Height:
.71IN
Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
.75
Copyright Year:
2013
Author:
Pema Chodron
Author:
Pema Chödrön
Author:
Pema Ch?dr?n
Subject:
Religion Eastern-Buddhism

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