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Choosing a Fresh Alternative • Download

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Recorded at Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY May 2004.

These six talks by Pema Chödrön are for those wishing to explore how we habitually get stuck and how we then unwillingly escalate the very dissatisfaction and pain we long to escape. We can choose to do the same old thing or we can choose the joy of a fresh alternative.

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Talk 1: Practice the Three Difficulties (:53) 
Acknowledging that you’re hooked, doing something different, and making this a way of life. You then become enthusiastic about not sowing the seeds of suffering.

Talk 2: Shenpa and the Pause (:81) 
Emphasis on “acknowledging that you’re hooked” and the 8 worldly dharmas.

Talk 3: Karmic Seeds (:79) 
Covers sowing seeds in the basic ground of alaya, burning up the seeds of resistance and connecting with the immediacy of our experience.

Talk 4: Loving-Kindness To Ourselves (:90) 
Giving your full, direct attention to anything is the same as expressing loving-kindness.

Talk 5: Bringing Together Practice with the Teachings (:41) 
This talk covers the different degrees of shenpa when we’re meditating and working with hope and fear.

Talk 6: Choose a Fresh Alternative (:88) 
“Do something different”.

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