cover image Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of Bodhisattva

Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of Bodhisattva

Pema Chödrön, read by the author. Shambhala Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61180-161-3

This series of recorded lectures from Chödrön focuses on various mindfulness practices rooted in Buddhist tradition and writings. She provides guidance on how to find inner peace and compassion through thinking, meditating, and reflecting. As a narrator, Chödrön’s delivery is conversational in a way that will make listeners feel they are members of a live audience at a retreat. Chödrön has an engaging tone, and her reading is sprinkled with jokes and asides that will put listeners at ease. At the end of the lecture series, some of the attendees ask questions, adding to the listening experience and making this a great entry point to Chödrön’s work. (March)