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.
