Start Where You Are
A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)
by Pema Chödrön
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Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chodron, 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 of our lives. Pema Chodron frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: - Always apply a joyful state of mind; -Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness; -Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment; - Be grateful to everyone. 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 own inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.
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Doctrines, Blo-sbyoṅ, Buddhism, Spiritual life, Meditation, Religious life, buddhism, Caring, Blo-sbyong| Edition | Availability |
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Start Where You Are
March 7, 2005, Element Books
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- New Ed edition
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Start where you are: a guide to compassionate living
2004, Shambhala
in English
- 1st Shambhala Library ed.
1590301420 9781590301425
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Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library)
March 9, 2004, Shambhala
Hardcover
in English
1590301420 9781590301425
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Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)
August 21, 2001, Shambhala Publications, Shambhala
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
1570628394 9781570628399
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Start where you are: a guide to compassionate living
1994, Shambhala
in English
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0877738807 9780877738800
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