Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living - Softcover

Pema Chodron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161180597X ISBN 13: 9781611805970

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Pema Chodron's perennially helpful guide to transforming the pains and difficulties in our lives into opportunities for genuine joy and personal growth

We all want to be fearless, joyful, and fully alive. And we all know that it's not so easy. We're bombarded every day with false promises of ways to make our lives better--buy this, go here, eat this, don't do that; the list goes on and on. But Pema Chodron shows that, until we get to the heart of who we are and really make friends with ourselves, everything we do will always be superficial. Here she offers down-to-earth guidance on how we can go beyond the fleeting attempts to "fix" our pain and, instead, to take our lives as they are as the only path to achieve what we all yearn for most deeply--to embrace rather than deny the difficulties of our lives. These teachings, framed around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, point us directly to our own hearts and minds, such as "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment," "Be grateful to everyone," and "Don't expect applause." By working with these slogans as everyday meditations, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover true joy, holistic well-being, and unshakeable confidence.

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Review:

Pema s deep experience and her fresh way of looking at things are like mountain water clear and deep. Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.

As one of Pema Chödrön s grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart. Alice Walker

It is a lively and accessible take on ancient techniques for transforming terror and pain into joy and compassion. --O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine

About the Author:

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 161180597X
• ISBN 13: 9781611805970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192