Editorial Product Review: :How can we go on living 'when things fall apart' – when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety? Pema Chodron’s answer to that question contains some spectacularly good news: there is a fundamental happiness readily available to each one of us, no matter how difficult things seem to be. To find it, according to traditional Buddhist teaching, we must learn to stop running from suffering and instead actually learn to approach it – fearlessly, compassionately, and with curiosity. This radical practice ...
Editorial Product Review: :We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is a beautiful, gift book edition (with a ribbon marker) of a modern-day classic. Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön, author of The Wisdom of No Escape and When Things Fall Apart, presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion toward others. The author shows how we can 'start where we are' by embracing rather than denying the painful aspects ...
Editorial Product Review: :An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chödrön guides us through this 'sticky feeling' and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
Editorial Product Review: :Short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than just a collection of “thoughts for the day,” Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study.
Editorial Product Review: :This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestations—embracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and confusion that characterizes the human experience. Pema Chödrön shows us the profound value of our situation of 'no escape' from the ups and downs of life.
Editorial Product Review: :Listen to an audio excerpt online in MP3 format—click here. Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children—and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema Chödrön. It is possible to relate constructively to the inevitable shocks, losses, and frustrations of life so that we can ...
Editorial Product Review: :Chodron demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives. Publishers WeeklyPema Chdron, one of the Wests most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in todays world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one boxed set. Pema Chdrn is a bhikshuni, or Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition. Since her ordination in 1974, Ane Pema ('Ane' is a Tibetan honorific for a nun) has conducted workshops, seminars, ...
Editorial Product Review: :Sakyong Mipham shows how to cultivate a strong stable mind and no longer live 'at the mercy of our moods.' His stories and wisdom from American culture, as well as from the great Buddhist teachers, help demystify this essential discipline and place it in the framework of Western culture. Accessible, practical, and clear, it provides readers with the necessary tools for taming the mind.
Editorial Product Review: :Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In No Time to Lose Pema invites readers to venture further along the path of the 'bodhisattva warrior,' explaining in depth how we can awaken the softness of our hearts and develop true confidence amid the challenges of daily living. Pema reveals the traditional Buddhist teachings that guide her own life: those of The Way of the ...
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