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GOING TO THE PLACES THAT SCARE YOUPema Chodron9 CDs Originally Recorded: Weekend Program, Berkeley California,  September 2001. Language: EnglishOriginal Format: Audio CDUploaded Format: MP3/128KBPublisher: Great Path Tapes & Books (September 2001)Live recording of Pema teaching in Berkeley California in September of 2001. This program addresses learning to practice with fear, aversion, and suffering in the context of the intention to benefit others.This program is based upon the teachings known as “The Five Slogans” practiced by Machig Labdron, following the instructions of her teacher, Padampa Sangye. This set presents the practice of tonglen in several forms. Excellent guided meditations.This is NOT the author narrating her book (“The Places That Scare You”). This is a live, weekend program on how to put the teachings of that book into practice. Very informative and helpful.
CDs 1a – bReveal Your Hidden Faults. Unobstructed love, and knowing the nature of fear. Introduction to 5 slogans of Machig Lapdronma. Working with shame and guilt. Practice: “Forgiveness tonglen”.
CDs 2a – bApproach What You Find Repulsive. Training in being present. Three levels of awareness. Bearing witness to suffering. Practice: “Aversion tonglen”.
CDs 3a – bHelp Those Whom You Think You Cannot Help. Nurturing bodhicitta. Fear is the “fear of fear.“ Trungpa Rinpoche on “Working with Negativity.” Practice: tonglen with our resistance to helping, and with those whom we do not want to help. (Talk 3 is continued on CD 4).
CDs 4a – bThat Which You Are Attached To: Give That. Continuation of talk 3. Trungpa Rinpoche: “The Lions Roar.“ “Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, transmuting“ experience. Offering practice.
CD 5Go To The Places That Scare You. Summary of instructions, contemplations, and practices. 6 questions from the discussion groups. Machig Labdronma and the Chöd practice. Anecdote of Ezra Bada. About being a student: Pema Chödrön’s teachers, lineage, sangha, Shambhala centers.