Like programmed robots, most often we react to the same type of stimuli in the same type of way: we are afraid of what is scary, we are angry at what offends us, we grieve because of what makes us sad …
Like programmed robots, most often we react to the same type of stimuli in the same type of way: we are afraid of what is scary, we are angry at what offends us, we grieve because of what makes us sad … According to Pema Chodron, the first woman in the West to become a monk in Buddhism and a beloved student of the great lamas of Tibet, such a response to difficulties is by no means the only possible one. It is not easy, but possible, to destroy the habitual paradigm, to stop mechanically awakening painful emotions in oneself, to free one’s mind and soul for a genuine, deep perception and experience of reality. This is what the practical and wise lectures of Chodron teach, collected by her students from the Gampo Monastery (Canada) and designed to help the reader find a foothold in the aggressive world around us, learn to draw strength and wisdom from any, even the most traumatic experience.
Gayatri, 176 p