Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön

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176 pages, softcover

Start Where You Are
A Guide to Compassionate Living
by Pema Chödrön

A wise and witty American Buddhist nun from Brooklyn, Pema Chödrön teaches how to cultivate fearlessness and awaken our hearts to compassion utilizing lojong practice (Tibetan mind training) including tonglen meditation. A great guide for well-being, healing and happiness regardless of your spiritual or religious beliefs.

~Harusami

"Start Where You Are" is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chodron presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"--embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chodron 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.

~~What They're Saying About
Start Where You Are~~

"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 Chodron'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

"Pragmatic and to the point, Pema Chödrön cuts to the very heart of practice, right to the tender pink spot we want to cover over and keep safe. In the context of being kind to ourselves, Start Where You Are shows how our greatest asset is our own vulnerability that we so desperately protect. Pema Chödrön guides us to the understanding that, rather than hiding from or resisting the pain of our existence, we can learn to relax with the situation just as it is." ~ Tantra magazine

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