Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others

Pema Chodron

ISBN 10: 000719062X / ISBN 13: 9780007190621

Published by Element Books, 2005

About this Item

240 pages. 7.72x5.04x0.79 inches. In Stock.

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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: 000719062X
• ISBN 13: 9780007190621
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

About this title

Synopsis

Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, from bestselling author Pema Chödrön. With insight and humour, she presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion towards others.

This book 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’, ‘Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment’ and ‘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.

About the Author

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, The Places that Scare You and the best-selling When Things Fall Apart. She is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners.