Download Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva AudioBook Free
The best-selling creator and beloved Buddhist tutor shares her insights on the practice of compassion and enlightened brain (bodhichitta). Compassion is a skill. It isn't a special characteristic that people either have or don't, but a practice that people can all nurture inside our daily lives. And the benefits are vast. It liberates our hearts from a slim sense of home, expands our sense of well-being, therefore much more. Needless to say, it's not always easy. But when we learn to use our adversities and worries, whatever it is that could be keeping us trapped, then we find that people gradually and by natural means become more open, joyful, and free. Which is this very flexibility that enlivens us and allows us to become truly open to the people all around us. In this registered retreat, Pema Chödrön shows all the requirements for training compassion inside our everyday lives, by using a words that is very near her center: the Buddhist common known as JUST HOW of the Bodhisattva. Here she focuses on its first chapter and primary subject, the enlightened center and brain (bodhichitta), demonstrating us how this awakened point out is open to us here and now, right where our company is.