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About this book
Pema Chödrön reveals the vast potential for happiness, wisdom and courage even in the most painful circumstances.
Pema Chödrön teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it – ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering.
This accessible guide to compassionate living shows us how we can use painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion and courage, ways of communication that lead to openness and true intimacy with others, practices for reversing our negative habitual patterns, methods for working with chaotic situations and ways to cultivate compassionate, energetic social action
Recently profiled in Oprah's O magazine, Pema Chödrön is a spiritual teacher for anyone – whether they have a spiritual path or not. Her heartfelt advice and wisdom (developed in her 20 years of practice as a Tibetan Buddhist nun as well as her years previously as a normal 'housewife and mother') give her a wide appeal. This advice strikes just the right note, offering us comfort and challenging us to live deeply and contribute to creating a more loving world.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Intimacy with Fear
- 2. When Things Fall Apart
- 3. This Very Moment Is the Perfect Teacher
- 4. Relax as It Is
- 5. It’s Never too Late
- 6. Not Causing Harm
- 7. Hopelessness and Death
- 8. Eight Worldly Dharmas
- 9. Six Kinds of Loneliness
- 10. Curious about Existence
- 11. Nonaggression and the Four Maras
- 12. Growing Up
- 13. Widening the Circle of Compassion
- 14. The Love that Will not Die
- 15. Going Against the Grain
- 16. Servants of Peace
- 17. Opinions
- 18. Secret Oral Instructions
- 19. Three Methods for Working with Chaos
- 20. The Trick of Choicelessness
- 21. Reversing the Wheel of Samsara
- 22. The Path Is the Goal
- Bibliography
- Resources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by the Same Author
- About the Publisher
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