Pema Chordron - Getting Unstuck

Getting Unstuck
Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality

Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available. On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chödrön introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality: a pre-emotional feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort often with harmful habits. With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at both the itch and the scratch : what Tibetan Buddhists call … shenpa.

On this full-length recording, Pema Chödrön, bestselling author and beloved American Buddhist nun, shows us how to recognize shenpa, catch it as it appears, and develop a playful, lively curiosity toward it. Join Pema Chödrön to discover more about:

* Critical mind—how to recognize this fundamental shenpa, and approach yourself and others with a sense of humor and loving-kindness
* Ways to unravel the patterns of self-denigration, and develop the fundamental maitri—loving-kindness—toward yourself
* How to cultivate acceptance of your irritability, insecurities, and other simply human traits
* Recognition, Refrain, Relaxing, and Resolve: the four R's of working with shenpa, and more

An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger, teaches Pema