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When the pandemic hit, our creative team at Sounds True focused on a singular important
question: What can we do to best support our listeners through this unprecedented and difficult time?
We decided to create a new free collection of teachings called "Resilience in Challenging Times," and we made a short list of the authors who we knew our listeners would want to hear from (as quickly as possible, please) about how to find strength and sanity during this time.
One of the authors on our list and on many people's lists of "go-to teachers" for wisdom during difficult times is beloved author and meditation teacher Pema Chödrön.
Pema Chödrön has a special gift for helping people embrace the unknown and turn toward what's difficult. The 40-minute interview we did together for the "Resilience in Challenging Times" resource page is so powerful that we are airing it as a special edition of Insights at the Edge so that as many people as possible can hear Pema Chödrön's specific teachings for this time.
We began our conversation talking about how to find a sense of ground when things feel groundless. And then Pema introduces listeners to a practice she calls "compassionate abiding," a practice you can use on the spot when you begin to feel uncomfortable, so that you can welcome into your experience that which feels difficult or unwanted.
In this podcast, we also discuss:
- The importance of staying embodied when we begin to feel anxiety or a sense of panic, and how to do this
- The teaching that we can "place the fearful mind in the cradle of lovingkindness"
- The traditional practice of tonglen (or "taking in and sending out"), and how we can use this practice to develop our empathy and send relief to others who are suffering
- How prevalent it is for people to be unfriendly toward themselves, and the importance of cultivating "unconditional friendship" and befriending even those parts of ourselves that we want to reject
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