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    Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
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    Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

    Written by Pema Chodron

    Narrated by Joanna Rotte

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    About this audiobook

    Start Where You Are 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."

    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 inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 26, 2017
    ISBN9780525591672
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    • 5/5
      I love her gentle way of teaching. She takes Buddhist teachings and breaks them down in easy to understand and implement stories and concepts. I will definitely be listening to this a few more dozen times.