When Pain is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances

What if the full sense of our aliveness were only to be found in the labyrinth of our most challenging times and difficult experiences? Amid pain and crisis, teaches Pema Chödrön, there lies a hidden miracle, a doorway to freedom that appears to us only when we're sure that there is no way out. In these intimate audio learning sessions, Pema Chödrön begins by helping us to distinguish the "triggers" or external events that we blame for our suff ering from the deeper habitual patterns that are feeding our anger, fear, or sadness. From this understanding, we then learn how to free ourselves from our propensity to suff er through the transformative awareness of impermanence-the dynamic and ever-shifting nature of both joy and suff ering, self and selfl essness-and the absolute and eternal fl ow from which all of it arises.