Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)

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.

• Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
• Pema Chödrön's Compassion Cards: Teachings for Awakening the Heart in Everyday Life
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
• The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
• The Wisdom of No Escape: and the Path of Loving-Kindness
• Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
• Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
• The Great Path of Awakening: The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion (Shambhala Classics)
• Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind