Este volumen recoge 108 enseñanzas esenciales para desarrollar la compasión y la claridad en medio de las ansiedades y dificultades propias de la vida. Es un manual para la práctica espiritual lleno de sabiduría e inspiración que recopila algunos de los mejores pasajes de las destacadas obras de Pema Chodron.La autora expone aquí conceptos, temas y prácticas transformadoras provenientes de la tradición budista, y nos muestra que estos recursos no solo son apropiados para quienes practican el budismo, sino que cualquier persona puede acceder a ellos para incrementar su entereza y volverse más consciente, sensible y compasivo.En estas páginas Pema Chodron nos enseña a superar las conductas habituales que a menudo nos impiden sentir compasión tanto por los demás como por nosotros mismos, y nos habla de los beneficios de la meditación y del mindfulness, de soltar los patrones obsesivos y repetitivos que nos aplastan, y de trabajar directamente con el miedo y otras emociones dolorosas.
Ani Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, closely associated with the Kagyu school and the Shambhala lineage.
She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.
While in her mid-thirties, she traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.
Ani Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Trungpa, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.
Ani Pema served as the director of the Karma Dzong, in Boulder, CO, until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for western monks and nuns.
Ani Pema currently teaches in the United States and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.