Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others

Chodron, Pema

ISBN 10: 0877738807 / ISBN 13: 9780877738800

Published by Element Books, 2005

About this Item

0877738807. 1994, bright clean copy, slight crease to cover, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others
• Publisher: Element Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877738807
• ISBN 13: 9780877738800
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • BUDDHISM

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Synopsis

Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön, author of The Wisdom of No Escape and When Things Fall Apart, presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion toward others. The author shows how we can "start where we are" by embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: "Always apply a joyful state of mind" "Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness" "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment" "Be grateful to everyone" Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.

Review

"Gives down-to-earth instructions for walking the Buddhist talk of compassion."--Shambhala Sun

"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