Awakening Compassion: Meditation Practice for Difficult Times

Other by Pema Chödrön

Released September 2003

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Introduction
    2:45
  • 2
    The Practice of Creating Space
    5:53
  • 3
    The Point Where All Dharmas Agree
    7:29
  • 4
    Finding Your Life's Work
    3:03
  • 5
    "Drive All Blames Into One"
    6:50
  • 6
    Introduction of Tonglen Practice
    8:12
  • 7
    "Be Grateful to Everyone"
    3:29
  • 8
    The Difficulties of Being With Others
    4:47
  • 9
    The Importance of Setting Boundaries
    5:56
  • 10
    The Qualities of Breathing in and Breathing Out
    4:11
  • 11
    Finding the "Soft Spot"
    3:36
  • 12
    Using Tonglen to Stay Open
    3:57
  • 13
    Exchanging Oneself for Others
    5:23
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Introduction
    0:36
  • 2
    The Three Qualities of Bodchitta: Compassion, Prajna, Sunyata
    5:30
  • 3
    "Regard All Dharma as Dreams"
    4:10
  • 4
    The Nature of Unborn Insight
    2:41
  • 5
    Self-Liberating Even the Antidote
    2:36
  • 6
    Resting in Essence
    3:29
  • 7
    Remaining a Child of Illusion
    1:08
  • 8
    The Formal Practice of Tonglen
    1:58
  • 9
    The Four Stages of Tonglen
    12:08
  • 10
    Practicing Tonglen
    10:20
  • 11
    Curing Versus Healing
    6:26
  • 12
    Widening the Circle of Compassion
    4:35
  • 13
    Separating Pleasure and Pain
    4:24
  • 14
    Creating Relationships With Others Through Tonglen
    4:43
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Introduction
    0:36
  • 2
    Applying the Joyful Mind
    6:53
  • 3
    Cultivating Appreciation
    5:00
  • 4
    Meditating on Resentment
    6:31
  • 5
    "One in the Beginning and One at the End"
    4:40
  • 6
    Learing to Be Both Big and Small
    3:54
  • 7
    Working With Feeling Overwhelmed
    2:56
  • 8
    Working With Resistance
    3:47
  • 9
    Working With Anger
    6:25
  • 10
    The Difficulty With Remaining Focused
    3:56
  • 11
    Awakening the Heart
    6:46
  • 12
    Bodhicitta: Yours "Soft Spot"
    9:01
  • 13
    Poison as Medicine: The Three Virtuous Seeds
    6:57
  • 14
    How Unwanted Circumstances Become the Path
    8:40
  • CD 4
  • 1
    Introduction
    0:36
  • 2
    Avoiding the "Soft Spot"
    4:16
  • 3
    Suffering and Anger
    8:11
  • 4
    Relaxing Into Groundlessness
    5:29
  • 5
    The Importance of Non-Resistance
    5:50
  • 6
    "Of the Two Witnesses, Hold to the Principle One"
    4:41
  • 7
    Trusting the Principle Witness
    13:11
  • 8
    Taking Responsibility for One's Actions
    2:39
  • 9
    Seeing Oneself Clearly With an Open Mind
    4:47
  • 10
    Naked Truth Slogans, Part I
    7:28
  • 11
    Naked Truth Slogans, Part II
    15:50
  • CD 5
  • 1
    Introduction
    0:39
  • 2
    "Be Grateful to Everyone"
    7:29
  • 3
    Never Give Up
    5:59
  • 4
    The Basis of Working With Others
    4:23
  • 5
    Relating to Confusion
    4:21
  • 6
    Starting Where You Are
    6:04
  • 7
    Does Tonglen Really Help Others
    1:02
  • 8
    The Transparent Nature of Things
    4:06
  • 9
    How to Continue the Practice on Your Own
    1:03
  • 10
    Communicating From the Heart
    6:26
  • 11
    Maintaining the Three Inseperabilities
    0:59
  • 12
    "Correct All Wrongs With One Intention"
    4:11
  • 13
    The Human Condition
    5:23
  • 14
    Training Without Bias
    5:32
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Introduction
    0:38
  • 2
    Tonglen as a Practice of the Heart
    4:02
  • 3
    The Immediacy of Tonglen
    9:30
  • 4
    The First Difficulty: Catching Yourself
    6:22
  • 5
    The Second Difficulty: Learning How to Change
    2:53
  • 6
    The Third Difficulty: Making Tonglen a Way of Life
    5:48
  • 7
    Working With Sadness
    3:03
  • 8
    Working With Grief
    2:40
  • 9
    Self-Examination as a Practice
    3:19
  • 10
    The Desire for Resolution
    1:52
  • 11
    What Does It Mean to Awaken Bodhichitta?
    8:07
  • 12
    Bodhichitta as Unrequitted Love
    7:29
  • 13
    The Intensification of Longing
    5:05
  • 14
    Practical Implications of Tonglen Practice
    10:27

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