The Resource How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind, Pema Chödrön
How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind, Pema Chödrön
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The item How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind, Pema Chödrön represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bedford Public Library.
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- Summary
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- This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover the basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness, the Seven Delights: how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love, Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises, thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight," instead of obstacles in meditation
- Meditation and Relaxation
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Choosing to live wholeheartedly
- The technique of meditation
- Preparing for practice and making the commitment
- Stabilizing the mind
- The six points of posture
- Breath: the practice of letting go
- Attitude: Keep coming back
- Unconditional friendliness
- You are your own meditation instructor
- Working with thoughts
- The monkey mind
- The three levels of discursive thought
- Thoughts as the object of meditation
- Regard all dharmas as dreams
- Working with emotions
- Becoming intimate with our emotions
- The space within the emotion
- Emotions as the object of meditation
- Getting our hands dirty
- Hold the experience
- Breathing with the emotion
- Drop the story and find the feeling
- Working with sense perceptions
- The sense perceptions
- The interconnection of all perceptions
- Opening your heart to include everything
- Giving up the struggle
- The seven delights
- The bearable lightness of being
- Beliefs
- Relaxing with groundlessness
- Create a circle of practitioners
- Cultivate a sense of wonder
- The way of the bodhisattva
- Isbn
- 9781604079333
- Label
- How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind
- Title
- How to meditate
- Title remainder
- a practical guide to making friends with your mind
- Statement of responsibility
- Pema Chödrön
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover the basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness, the Seven Delights: how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love, Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises, thoughts and emotions as "sheer delight," instead of obstacles in meditation
- Meditation and Relaxation
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chödrön, Pema
- Dewey number
- 294.3/4435
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BQ5612
- LC item number
- .C48 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Meditation
- Label
- How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind, Pema Chödrön
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Choosing to live wholeheartedly -- The technique of meditation -- Preparing for practice and making the commitment -- Stabilizing the mind -- The six points of posture -- Breath: the practice of letting go -- Attitude: Keep coming back -- Unconditional friendliness -- You are your own meditation instructor -- Working with thoughts -- The monkey mind -- The three levels of discursive thought -- Thoughts as the object of meditation -- Regard all dharmas as dreams -- Working with emotions -- Becoming intimate with our emotions -- The space within the emotion -- Emotions as the object of meditation -- Getting our hands dirty -- Hold the experience -- Breathing with the emotion -- Drop the story and find the feeling -- Working with sense perceptions -- The sense perceptions -- The interconnection of all perceptions -- Opening your heart to include everything -- Giving up the struggle -- The seven delights -- The bearable lightness of being -- Beliefs -- Relaxing with groundlessness -- Create a circle of practitioners -- Cultivate a sense of wonder -- The way of the bodhisattva
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Isbn
- 9781604079333
- Lccn
- 2012046126
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn819275580
- Label
- How to meditate : a practical guide to making friends with your mind, Pema Chödrön
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Choosing to live wholeheartedly -- The technique of meditation -- Preparing for practice and making the commitment -- Stabilizing the mind -- The six points of posture -- Breath: the practice of letting go -- Attitude: Keep coming back -- Unconditional friendliness -- You are your own meditation instructor -- Working with thoughts -- The monkey mind -- The three levels of discursive thought -- Thoughts as the object of meditation -- Regard all dharmas as dreams -- Working with emotions -- Becoming intimate with our emotions -- The space within the emotion -- Emotions as the object of meditation -- Getting our hands dirty -- Hold the experience -- Breathing with the emotion -- Drop the story and find the feeling -- Working with sense perceptions -- The sense perceptions -- The interconnection of all perceptions -- Opening your heart to include everything -- Giving up the struggle -- The seven delights -- The bearable lightness of being -- Beliefs -- Relaxing with groundlessness -- Create a circle of practitioners -- Cultivate a sense of wonder -- The way of the bodhisattva
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Isbn
- 9781604079333
- Lccn
- 2012046126
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn819275580
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