Women’s Book Discussion Group: ”THE PLACES THAT SCARE YOU”
Thursdays, April 16th – May 21st
The Book Group will meet weekly on Thursdays from 6-7:30pm
Facilitated by Deb King
Book: ‘The Places That Scare You‘ by Pema Chodron
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REGISTRATION: $85 (+Book if needed available in the Unity Gift Shop)
OR
In Person at our Gift Shop (OM Books & Gifts) To register by phone call 303-442-1411.
Reading Assignment for First Week: pages 1-22
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ABOUT OUR BOOK GROUPS:
Unity Book Study Groups are a great way to take a deep dive into your spiritual growth and open your heart to new ways of approaching your spirituality, while participating in a guided journey through some of the most insight filled mystical and metaphysical books by today’s leading authors on the path of enlightenment.
Deb King has a rich background in facilitating many book groups and loves to bring her own open hearted approach to sharing everyone’s perspective in her discussions. Each week, she will prompt you with questions about that week’s reading and encourage you to share your stories that have been inspired by your own personal journey on the spiritual path of awakening.
There is a syllabus and an assigned reading for the first group meeting so be sure to register soon and pick up or request your syllabus when you register.
BOOK SYNOPSIS: (from spiritualityandpractice.com)
In her work, ‘The Places That Scare You’, Chödrön demonstrates ways to practice the four limitless qualities of loving — kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. She is especially cogent in her discussion of learning to rejoice for ourselves, loved ones, friends, neutral parties, and enemies.
“Self importance,” writes the author, “is like a prison for us, limiting us to the world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up very dissatisfied.” The wisdom offered in these pages is meant to help us stay with our demons and frustrations, to turn around our habitual ways of striking out and blaming, and to strive to become fearless. Chödrön’s teachings are a great gift providing a spiritual uplift that is at once fresh, direct, poignant, and transforming.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and was an elementary school teacher for many years in New Mexico and California.
In her mid-thirties, Ani Pema met and studied with Lama Chime Rinpoche, becoming a novice nun in 1974 in London. She received ordination from His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa during that time.
Pema first met her root guru, the teacher with whom she had the most profound connection, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972, and she studied closely with him until his death in 1987.
In 1984, at the behest of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Ani Pema moved from Boulder, Colorado to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. She currently teaches throughout the United States and Canada and continues her studies and meditative retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
The nonprofit Pema Chödrön Foundation was established to further Ani Pema’s interest in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West as well as to support the continuation of her teachings across traditions.