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Start Where You Are : A Guide to Compassionate Living


<p><i>Start Where You Are</i> 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."</p> <p>Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, <i>Start Where You Are</i> shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.</p> <p>With insight and humor, the author of The Wisdom of No Escape presents down-to-earth teachings on how we can work with our own suffering as well as with the suffering of others. This is only possible, says the author, if we "start where we are" and embrace the painful aspects of our lives. </p>

Author(s): Pema Chodron  

ISBN 10: 1570628394
ISBN 13: 9781570628399
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Publication: 2001/08/21
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