Here is a commentary on lodjong teachings—training the mind. In her unique style, Pema Chödrön makes this nine-hundred-year-old teaching modern, practical, and inspiring. She teaches us how to awaken in everyday life with all its difficulties, to be open, kind, and loving toward ourselves and toward others.
Pema Chödrön (Pema Chodron) is an ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition of Vajrayana, and the teacher of Chögyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is to make it possible to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life.
As the author of many works, Pema Chödrön leads workshops, seminars, and meditations in Europe, Australia, and all of North America.
She is the teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in the rural area of Cape Breton in Canada.
Pema was born in 1936 in New York and graduated from the University of California.
Before turning to Buddhism, she worked as an elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico.
In 1974 Pema Chödrön became a Buddhist nun; she played an important role in an attempt to restore the full ordination coordination of Tibetan Buddhist nuns’ ceremonies.
Pema Chödrön is the author of many works, including "Wisdom in the Impossible," "Start Where You Are," "When Things Fall Apart," "Wherever Fear Is," and "The Convenient Uncertainty."