Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

 

Start Where You Are is a must-have guide for developing fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. Pema Chödrön offers practical advice on how to "start where we are," embracing rather than denying the difficult aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön bases her compassion teachings on fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as "Always apply only a joyful state of mind," "Do not seek others' pain as limbs of your own happiness," and "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment."

Start Where You Are demonstrates how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence by using these slogans and the practice of meditation.