Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality
Pema Chodron
An urge comes up, we succumb to it, it becomes stronger. We reinforce our habits by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chodron offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts, and live more peacefully in the present moment.
Have you ever had an itch-and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to "scratch, " great peace and happiness is available. On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality; a "pre-emotional" feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort—often with harmful habits. Here she offers us a first look at "both the itch and the scratch"— what Tibetan Buddhists call shenpa.
3 CDs; 3.5 hours
