Awakening Loving-Kindness

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Based on talks given during a one-month meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, where Pema lives and teaches, this book's teachings focus on learning how to truly live in one's skin without embarrassment or harshness--and to love oneself and one's world wholeheartedly. With her characteristic softness and relatability, Pema shows how some of the most simple practices to cultivate no-escape mind can alleviate human misery at a personal and global level.Based on talks given during a one-month meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, where Pema lives and teaches, this book's teachings focus on learning how to truly live in one's skin without embarrassment or harshness--and to love oneself and one's world wholeheartedly. With her characteristic softness and relatability, Pema shows how some of the most simple practices to cultivate no-escape mind can alleviate human misery at a personal and global level.
PEMA CHIDRIN is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of renowned Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-sellingaWhen Things Fall ApartaandaDon't Bite the Hook.