Awakening Love

Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Limitless Heart

By: Pema Chödrön

Narrated by: Pema Chödrön

Awaken the Capacity to Love, the True Purpose of Our Lives

Have 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?

With Awakening Love, Pema Chödrön invites you to start wherever you are, amid any and all of the challenges, frustrations, or fears you may be facing, and to use them as the starting place to awaken the natural and boundless capacity to give and receive love more fully.

This practice-centered program, recorded at Gampo Abbey, will teach you how to apply the insights of Buddhism’s Four Limitless Ones—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—to even your most difficult obstacles.

Your Obstacles to the Open Heart Are Your Most Valuable Allies

Many students confess to Pema Chödrön that they cannot think of even one person to love during heart-centered meditation practice. This is what she tells them:

“What if you could open to that frustration, just for a moment, to discover not just where love is free flowing … but where it’s not? That is how we all begin to uncover the soft spot within.”

Here, Pema Chödrön brings her unique blend of kitchen-table common sense, scholarship, and empathy to help you discover the eternal resilience and joy of your own tender, undefended, and genuine heart. Whether you’re in the midst of a challenging relationship, grief, or simply in need of heart-centered rejuvenation, Awakening Love provides you with the gentle step-by-step instructions needed to awaken the natural goodness within you.

Highlights

The Four Qualities or Limitless Ones, the roots of suffering, and expanding the capacity to love
• Seeing where we’re blocked and bringing lovingkindness to our biases and fears
• Aspiration practice, “not faking it,” unblocking the flow of love, and benefactors
• Changing our attitude toward pain, working with anger, compassionate abiding, tonglen, and “making friends with the hard stuff”
• Meditations and practices for receiving unconditional love, resting in natural awareness, cultivating gratitude and sympathetic joy, opening to the world, and more

A LIMIT-LESS Heart

Strong, and beautiful. Pema shows you through everyday examples and simple explanations the way. She never demeans or holds back. She leads, shows, tells, inspirws.

Enlightened work!

I have a lot of work to do! This is more than a great start for me! I would recommend this to anyone wanting to experience real change.

Excellent!

Pema is simply one of the greatest minds of our time. This audio covers some of her older material, but expands into some new thoughts. I have most of her other audio books and this is by far...the best recording I have heard! There isn't the background noise or poor quality that is found in some of the other audio books. If you are thinking of buying any of her work or if you are new to her work then buy this one first. If you have her other work then buy it for the simply for the great quality! Lots of tools in this also. It is quite concise and great clarity on all levels. Thank you Pema...you have given so much needed wisdom.

Retreat recorded

I’ve listened to this audible book many times. At first I was confused by all of the lead meditations it contains. Now, that is part of the beauty of this book.

Heart Opening

Fantastic teachings with guided meditations. Pema takes the traditional teachings of Metta meditation to the next level. Highly recommended.