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Manufacturer: Shambhala
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294
EAN: 9781590304495
ISBN: 1590304497
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2007-03-27
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date: 2007-03-27
Studio: Shambhala
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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. This book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
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Summary: Calming, inspiring reminder...
Comment: I love listening to this tape. I put it on and start it over again when it is done. I find it totally inspiring to listen to the writing of this wise Buddhist monk.
My only criticism is that the woman who reads the book (beautiful voice, by the way). She pronounces the word "strength" omitting the 'g' sound. This was horribly annoying to me. I grew up pronouncing the 'g' and it sounds prissy and pompous to omit the 'g' sound.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Comment: I loved this book -- it's practical and prescriptive. I applied her advice into both my personal and professional life. Next steps -- I will read her entire collection.
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Summary: An insightful book
Comment: Pema Chrodon's work is, as always is an insightful read about human nature and emotions and how we come to term with those emotions. I found the focus on the bodhichitta and the different sayings fascinating as well as enjoying further revelations about Buddhist beliefs and spirituality. All of what she writes is applicable to living life and facing the fears any of us could face.
The only reason this is a four instead of a five is because you can find a lot of what she writes in here, in her other works. It still makes for good reading, but reading one of her works seems to get to heart of all of her writing.
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Summary: This is not a 1 month reading
Comment: I am new on those buddhism staff, so I became to realize that you never end reading and learning from this sort of books.
Altough some terms results difficult to understand to me, It became a valuable source of advice.
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Summary: Perhaps the most mature approach to spiritual awakening.
Comment: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
For people who are looking for a practice guide that will help them understand the process of observation with rigorous acceptance, integrity and compassion of all that which is observed. This is about finding peace through that process because the heart opens as a result. The opening and openness of the heart are at the core of that peace which we seek. Our incessant wanting is only satiated by an open heart. It represents a mature emotional and spiritual approach in understanding what we want and how we gain peace. Perhaps a truly fully open heart receives (perhaps even attracts?) what it wants because it cherishes what is.
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