When Pain Is the Doorway

Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances

By: Pema Chödrön

Narrated by: Pema Chödrön

Finding freedom in our most difficult circumstances.

What if the full sense of our aliveness were only to be found amidst our most challenging times and difficult experiences? In pain and crisis, teaches Pema Chödrön, there lies a hidden doorway to freedom that appears to us only when we're sure that there is no way out.

In these intimate audio learning sessions, Pema Chödrön helps us distinguish the triggers or external events that we blame for our suffering from the deeper habitual patterns that feed our anger, fear, or sadness. From this understanding, we learn how to free ourselves from our propensity to suffer through the transformative awareness of impermanence - the dynamic and ever-shifting nature of both joy and suffering, self and selflessness-and the absolute and eternal flow from which all of it arises.

What is causing my pain? What will happen if I simply lean in, keep company with it, hold it with tenderness? Moment by moment, Pema supports and encourages listeners to bring an openhearted sense of curiosity and welcoming to our apparently impossible situations or unbearable relationships - to discover the deeper freedom available just beneath the surface.

For those experiencing emotional crisis, When Pain Is the Doorway provides expert guidance to help us stop, stay present, and enter into a more welcoming, spacious place of being that is our true home.

©2013 Pema Chödrön (P)2013 Pema Chödrön

Move closer, rather than run away from

I learned so much from this! Pema Chödrön presents concepts that can be difficult to understand in a very accessible way. She is willing to go 'there' to help her audience to benefit through practice and understanding. The format consists of a set of presentations, each followed by Q and A. The presenter and the audience members who ask the questions are well-spoken and engaging. I would recommend this Audiobook to anyone who is seeking ways to cope and expand one's consciousness, peace, and understanding in the most difficult and challenging circumstances.

Inspiring

Brings quite realistic descriptions of our daily lives and ways to change our reactions in order to grow. As always Pema Chodron presents her warm and assertiveness.

propensity, seeds, workplace criticism (HarveyMilk

"Drive all blames into one."
Asks, What is blame?
And what is ego clinging?
"kerosene on the flames"
"in a library or on a park bench"
"staying with the rawness"
"dent in the car, shot, torture"
"clear seeing, not enflaming"
"start singing"
Part 2 charnal ground

very important, helpful information

I loved it. Pema makes it understandable and easy to take into my own practice.

Wise woman Pema Chodrin

Pema Chodrin is cool water in a desert. She's that rare teacher that has lived what she teaches and is now leading others through the challenges this life brings with courage and compassion.