Bodhisattva Mind

Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering

By: Pema Chödrön

Narrated by: Pema Chodron

What if you could cultivate the mind of a bodhisattva -- one who has dedicated one's life to the benefit of others? According to Pema Chödrön, best-selling author and American-born Buddhist nun, you can. On Bodhisattva Mind, she examines sheshin, or "guarding alertness", and the other qualities of mind we need to develop on the path to enlightenment. "We all have a consciousness that knows what helps and what causes harm," says Ani Pema. "With this same ability, we can 'tame our minds', and extricate ourselves from suffering."

A practicum of insights and meditations from this cherished teacher, Bodhisattva Mind shows us how to connect with the spacious, clear, unbiased nature of our minds and experience the joy of complete freedom.

©2006 Pema Chodron

Such a Treasure

I can't say enough positive things about this recording. Just listen and you will see for yourself all that Pema Chodron has to offer. Humor, courage, kindness and insight. A simply wonderful listening experience.

continuity in teaching

Pema has wisdom, humor and an invitational style of teaching that keeps me continuing to study and practice on this spiritual path.

I love Pema!

As a student of Buddhism this is a perfectly pleasant explanation and commentary on Santideva's Way of the Bhodisattva. I just love Pema!

Accessible

As always Pema Chodron invites in the listener to learn and integrate Buddhist wisdom through stories and anecdotes that are relatable and even funny sometimes. She talks about cultivating the mind through working with the dharma, and explores being with others and inviting them in to see the possibilities of an open mind. At least that’s what I am sitting with!

Thoroughly enjoyed my first Pema Chodron book

Could not have picked a better first audiobook! Make sure to listen to it slowly and really digest what she says.

One of her best!

I've read and listened to a number of Pema Chodron's books and this was one of her best.

lots of people vote and don't write reviews

Some doo-dah down below in the reviews said obviously the publisher posted reviews to prop up this work. I don't write reviews often because I am too busy and other people have said what I would have written already. But I do vote. This book is about seeing yourself the way you resist seeing yourself and seeing others with a new-found compassion because of it. It is about our willingness to see the speck in another's eye while ignoring our own log in the eye. And it offers hope and love as the rewards for our efforts. It is my favorite Pema work though I love everything I have heard by her - probably all her audiobooks. I do audios as my eyes are not so good anymore, must have been all those logs :-D , and I drive an hour a day to my job which is the perfect listening time for this work - get ready to see things differently before work and process before I get home. God bless Pema and her work.

Lessons to live by

Pema is a gifted and beautiful teacher. I will be listening to her teachings over and over.

relevant and revolutionary

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

yes, i've already recommended it to many people. i can't think of any person who wouldn't find something valuable to take from this book. it changed that way i see the world and my contribution to it.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

it made me laugh many times and it touched my heart more times than i can count.

Hari Das Jaya

What strikes me about this recording is that each time I listen to it, it opens me new understandings.