Good Medicine: How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation

A video class by Pëma Chödron

Within Buddhism, there are many stories that refer Buddha as the "supreme physician" - a healer of all illness - mental, physical, and spiritual. The Buddha's prescription for right living led directly to tonglen, a Tibetan meditation practice.

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation master and founder of Karme Choling Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center in Barnet, Vermont. She is the author of The Places That Scare You, Comfortable with Uncertainty, The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and the bestselling When Things Fall Apart. Ani Pema ("Ani" is a Tibetan honorific for a nun) is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North merica established for Westerners.

The class starts Thursday, September 11th and continues on Thursdays until October 9th

Classes start at 6:00pm with meditation, followed by the video and discussion. This series of classes is facilitated by Tune Faulkner