Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living Author: Pema Chodron | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BPE414Q | Format: EPUB
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living Description
Start
Where You Are
is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a
compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents
down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—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 only a joyful state of
mind," "Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own
happiness," and "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment."
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 inner pain and
discover joy, well-being, and confidence.
- File Size: 349 KB
- Print Length: 174 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1570628394
- Publisher: Shambhala Publications (September 14, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BPE414Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > Tibetan - #52
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Alternative Medicine > Meditation - #75
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Meditation
I absolutely loved this book. I read it for a class about wisdom and of the 10 books we had to read I'm only keeping three; this is one. I didn't know anything about Buddhism before reading this and I don't feel that I need to be a Buddhist in order to benefit from Pema's insights. Her advice for living (taken right from lojong slogans from Buddhist traditions) can be taken on many different levels. I don't feel that you need to go deep into the practice in order to benefit from any of this books teachings. You take from it what you need to. I'm adding my voice to the many here who have praised her, Pema Chodron has written a wonderful, helpful book. If you're in pain emotionally I highly recommend it. If you just want to get some peace in your life I highly recommend it. Everyone needs help coping with living, even if it's just a little. Pema has given us a guide to one way of coping.
By KTB
I highly recommend Start Where You Are for anyone who is serious about meditation practice and wants an earthy, no frills, no pretentions guide to compassionate living. Pema Chodron stresses that in order to act with compassion toward others, one must start with themselves, openning up that can of worms full of all the messy stuff that we would all rather not fess up to.
At a very difficult time in my life, I just kept starting at the beginning every time I finished reading it. I felt as if I knew Pema Chodron personally by reading her books. And having read everything of Chogyam Trungpa's that I could find prior, I had a strong grasp of the foundation from which she learned, but that is certainly not a prerequisite to benefiting from her teachings.
I would also strongly recommend her earlier book: The Wisdom of No Escape.
By A Customer
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