You cannot get away from suffering. That is the good news, teaches Pema Chodron. For at the core of your most painful experiences - perhaps more than anywhere else - you will find the seeds of awakening. In Noble Heart, this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows how your vulnerability, far from signifying weakness, is actually your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties. The noble heart, Ani Pema teaches, is one that sheds its armor, opening itself with equal fearlessness to both heartache and delight. Using special meditation techniques and traditional teachings, Pema Chodron leads you, step, by step, toward a full realization of your true strength - the strength that can come only through embracing the pain of your own experience.

Noble Heart, Pema Chodron, Sounds True, 9 hours / 12 CDs, $79.95

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is director of Gampo Abbey, in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America establied for Westerners. Ani (a Tibetan honorific for a nun) Pema has written many books, and has recorded on DVD, Video, Cd's and Cassettes many teachings, such as The Places That Scare You, Comfortable With Uncertainty, The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and the best seller, When Things Fall Apart.