This audiobook is an indispensable tool for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön offers guidance on how to accept our flaws and embrace ourselves wholeheartedly as a prer...

Pema Chödrön examines the question, 'What is the root of happiness?' She guides the listener through effective meditations and practices to face their feelings with courage, patience, and compassion, dissolve the barriers to our hea...

Tibetan Buddhism describes three gates that everyone must pass through on the road to spiritual liberation. With The Three Commitments, Pema Chödrön brings her unique blend of insight and gentle instruction to guide practitioners th...

For more than eight hundred years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the principles of lojong (literally meaning "mind training") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Awakening Compassi...

How can we go on living "when things fall apart" – when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety? Pema Chodron's answer to that question contains some spectacularly good news: there is a fundamental happiness readily ava...

Pema Chodron is one of the West's most beloved teachers of Buddhism, making the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today's world. Now, three of her most popular teachings are available in one boxed set. The Pema Chodron Collect...

Awaken the Capacity to Love, the True Purpose of Our LivesHave you ever wanted to love and connect with others more deeply … but felt that you could use a little help shedding the "emotional armor" and opening your heart?W...

More than just a collection of "thoughts for the day," Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study with Tibetan Buddhist nun and bestselling author Pema Chödrön. Inspired by the Buddhist tr...

In this three-CD program, Pema Chödrön draws on Buddhist teachings to reveal how to find real happiness amid the inevitable shocks, losses, and frustrations of living. The secret, Pema says, is to develop the courage to investigate ...

Pema Chödrön's first and most accessible book, The Wisdom of No Escape, teaches about the importance of saying yes to life in all its manifestations. By embracing the happiness and suffering, intelligence and confusion that are a na...

Where will we look when we are afraid? How do we find strength? In what can we place our trust? According to Tibetan Buddhism, the noble aspirations known as "The Four Great Catalysts of Awakening" are waiting to help us cul...

In her previous books, Pema Chödrön offered the compelling vision of becoming a "spiritual warrior"—cultivating compassion, courage, and wisdom under all circumstances. Her vision of enlightened living has resonated stro...

What would happen if we looked with fresh eyes at the struggles and "impossible situations" that we face every day-and found there four truths that changed everything? For decades, Pema Chödrön has brought clarity and hear...

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 Min...

An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this 'sticky feeling' and offers us tools for learning to...

When it comes to meditation, Pema Chödrön is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost instructors. Yet most of her books and teaching programs have focused on the benefits and challenges of a well-established practice . . . un...

Have you ever found yourself thinking your way into a tangle of fret, frustration, or gloom? And then something—a few kind words, the sun glancing through the clouds, a warm cup of tea—gave you a welcome pause from all your inner ...

You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chodron. For at the core of your most painful experiences - perhaps more than anywhere else - you will find the seeds of your awakening. On Noble Heart, this bestse...

 Listen to an audio excerpt online in MP3 format—click here. “War and peace begin in the hearts of individuals,” declares Pema Chödrön at the opening of her inspiring and accessible new book. In Practicing Peace i...

We all have fears, but when we look closely at them, we discover that behind each fear resides a basic fear of ourselves. We're afraid to look at our habitual styles of thinking and behaving because we might not always like what we se...

For centuries Tibetan Buddhists have employed pithy, penetrating slogans to awaken wisdom and compassion in the midst of daily life. Here, Pema presents the heart of this transformative spiritual practice (called lojong in Tibetan). S...

Much like Zen, Pema Chodron's interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism takes the form of a nontheistic spiritualism. In When Things Fall Apart this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound term...

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 ordin...

How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and ExperiencesIn 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...

Join two beloved spiritual luminaries for a conversation full of kinship, laughter, and joyful truthsWhat do a Jesuit priest and a Buddhist nun have in common? It may sound like the opening to a joke, but it’s actually the question ...

Life, Death, and Rebirth—Pema Chödrön on the Tibetan Book of the Dead  What happens when we die? One of the most treasured resources for understanding this essential question is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With Embracing the Un...

For those of us leaving school, a job, or a relationship, the prospect of facing the unknown may be daunting. And we may fail. Then what? At her granddaughter's graduation ceremony at Naropa University, Pema Chödrön answered that qu...

We live in difficult times. Life sometimes seems like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us. Why, in the face of that, shouldn't we cling for safety to the certainty of the shore—to our comfortably familiar patterns ...

Discover the Buddha\'s Six Keys to Greater Ease, Compassion, and Fulfillment\r\n\r\nWe may tell ourselves that once our lives get on track—with a good career, a loving partner, and a better sense of security—then we\'ll be a...

Right now, there is a vast wisdom available to all of us--our "natural awareness" that lies beneath the discursive mind and its habitual reactions. On Natural Awareness, beloved teacher and bestselling author Pema ChÖdrÃ...