When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances audiobook runs 1.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Pema Chödrön (about 1.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 1.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
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What our data says
- At 1.9 hours, it is shorter than 79% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön narrates 38 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 148 hours in all.
- Fully Alive: A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
- Smile at Fear: A Retreat with Pema Chodron on Discovering Your Radiant Self-Confidence
- Practicing Peace in Times of War: Four Talks
- It's Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path
- Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva
About as long, on the Medicine & Naturopathy shelf
360 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances is an audiobook by Pema Chödrön: a 1.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Pema Chödrön, released May 1, 2013, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and Mindfulness & Meditation shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Pema Chödrön
- Released
- May 1, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Medicine & Naturopathy, Mindfulness & Meditation
- ISBN
- 9781604079883
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How long is the When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances audiobook?
When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances runs 1.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1.3 hours.
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Who narrates When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances?
When Pain Is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances is narrated by Pema Chödrön.