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Awakening Compassion: Meditation Practice for Difficult Times

For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the practice of lojong or mind training to transform difficulties into knowledge. In this work, Pema Chodron shows how painful emotions can be used as stepping stones to wisdom, compassion and fearlessness.

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