Pema Chödrön explains Maitri

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Pema Chödrön reveals the time-tested Buddhist antidote to suffering—and shows how to apply it in your own life. The simple and elegant meditation practice known as tonglen, she teaches, is the perfect medicine for "ordinary people like ourselves." Through tonglen, we can use life's difficulties as a way to befriend ourselves, accept the past we have rejected, and widen our circle of compassion.

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[telethon123]

It's not gloomy. The first of the Four Noble Truths is that there is suffering, and the other three deal with said suffering. So a buddhist discussion will naturally center on suffering and its origins and remedies. The fact that she acknowledges and talks about our suffering is what makes her teachings more helpful and transformative than, for example, a Tony Robbins cheerleading session.

[aperezNWO]

Thanks for sharing. Is a daring duty to "translate" eastern teaching to the wordly western culture...

[morethanlyf1]

I like it..'unconditional friendship with oneself' it's like wow, I found something essential. Thanks Pema and your funny too!:p

[ogoboogo]

@telethon123 i dont have problem with suffering , but suffering that reduces your life to a room and your ability to escape suffering through practices recommended like meditation is something else. How can suffering then be considered something you can transcend if we do not fully know how much the body / mind is responsible for it and what we call reality ?

[0synesthete0]

@telethon123 The Truth of Suffering, and The Truth of its Origins. The Truth of its Cessation, and The Truth of the Path that leads one thus - The Four Noble Truths.

[MaitriCathleen]

Thank you Pema Chodron, I so appreciate your teachings. I received the name Maitri from my teacher, Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, in Kerala in 1995 and had no idea what it was at the time. I have grown to love the name and its deep meaning and the teacher it has become for me. I aspire to live by Loving Kindness, it seems most especially hard for us to feel love and acceptance for ourselves.

[tremben]

As Pema related, from a meditation workshop in TX, one fella would say to himself just, "Thinking, good buddy."

mangalam!

KC:

[KarineRibbens]

When was this recorded??

She must be 75 now...

[anulay]

She really is inspiring to hear and to watch -- such wisdom and strength radiating from those eyes.

[alpal3971]

set yourself goals ? stages as you tag along,,,,, on how long to live, marrige,children,& if you live in a lucky DAC. NUCK. money..

[Aurelius27x]

Pali word Metta = Loving-kindness