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Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles

by Pema Chodron · 1998

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You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema ChAdrAn. For at the core of your most painful experiences-perhaps more than anywhere else-you will find the seeds of your awakening. On Noble Heart, this bestselling author and Tibetan Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is our greatest spiritual resource amid life's difficulties. Using special meditations and teachings, she shows how to cultivate your own noble heart-one that sheds its armor, and opens fearlessly to both heartache and delight. A full curriculum of meditations, practices, teaching stories, and real-life examples presented in clear, easy-to-follow language.

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