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Pema Chodron 2017 Wall Calendar: Awakening the Heart — A Year of Inspirational Quotes

The Pema Chödrön: Awakening the Heart wall calendar features quotes from Chödrön’s book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change and is designed to help us cultivate compassion, courage, and awareness within the challenges of daily life. These insightful quotes are paired with beautifully evocative and meditative nature photography.

A year of Pema Chödrön’s wisdom with meditative nature photography on your wall. Frameable artbook-quality printing. The perfect inspirational photography gift. Stunning photography by renowned photographers such as Jim Richardson. Printed on FSC® Certified Mixed Source Paper with soy-based inks. Published by Amber Lotus, an independent carbon-negative US company that has planted more than half a million trees since 2008. This calendar features US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and important observances of the world’s major religions.

Pema Chödrön is a leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life. She is widely known for her engaging and down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences. Chödrön is the author of several best-selling books, including Comfortable with Uncertainty, When Things Fall Apart, and Start Where You Are.

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The Heart of Bravery: A Retreat with Sakyong Mipham and Pema Chodron

Two of the world’s most beloved spiritual teachers and leading figures in the Shambhala tradition of Buddhism discuss the core principles and practices of the tradition and how personal meditation practice can forge an enlightened society.

Best-selling authors Pema Chödrön and Sakyong Mipham get to the heart of Shambhala practice in this recorded retreat on the ways that inner peace and bravery can help us cultivate compassionate action and positive societal change. They offer insight on the inherent strength and goodness of humanity and on how each of us can tap into that strength through meditation practice. Sakyong Mipham provides guided practices on core Shambhala meditations for developing courage, love for others, and respect for others’ basic human dignity; Pema Chödrön teaches extensively on how personal spiritual practice relates to community betterment; and a compelling panel discussion with Shambhala teacher Adam Lobel and Episcopal Rev. Marc Handley Andrus reviews how the retreat’s teachings can be brought to bear in today’s interconnected global society.

Running time: 4 hours, 45 minutes

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Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva

The best-selling author and beloved Buddhist teacher shares her insights on the practice of compassion and enlightened mind (bodhichitta).

Teachings on bodhichitta and the bodhisattva path have been at the heart of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition for centuries. Drawing on the beloved classic The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva and many years of personal practice, Pema Chödrön leads this retreat on cultivating practical wisdom and selfless compassion that will inspire both the experienced practitioner and the curious novice.
     Run time: 4 hours.

This recorded retreat with beloved author and Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön focuses on the subject of bodhichitta. Often translated as “enlightened mind” or “enlightened heart,” bodhichitta is central in Mahayana Buddhist practice, which includes many popular Buddhist forms and traditions such as Zen and Tibetan Vajrayana. Chödrön’s teachings in this retreat are based especially upon the beloved classic The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, an eighth-century treatise on the way to live as an enlightened being and the subject of her 2007 book No Time to Lose (now an audiobook as well). They show us how to become open to both our own suffering and the suffering of our troubled world–and, through this practice, the way to reach out and help with serenity, bravery, and wisdom. Blending traditional scriptural teachings with personal anecdotes and contemporary commentary, Chödrön orients the experienced practitioner and the curious novice alike to the essentials of the Buddhist path.