Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron

Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron

Pema Ch dr n'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 Ch dr n 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.

Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun from the Chogyam Trungpa lineage in the United States. She is a resident instructor at Gampo Monastery in Nova Scotia, North America's first Tibetan monastery for Westerners. She is the best-selling author of several books and audiobooks, including When Things Come Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.

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ISBN 13	9781570628399
ISBN 10	1570628394
Title	Start Where You Are
Author	Pema Chodron
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2001-08-21
Number of pages	176
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