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Start Where You Are
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Commentary on the 59 slogans of lojong, the Tibetan Buddhist mind training attributed to Atisha and systematised by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, and on the practice of tonglen. It shows how difficult situations in daily life can become occasions to awaken compassion, starting with oneself.
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Authorship note
Like most of her books, it derives from recorded talks and retreats, transcribed and edited with her editors; the author revises the text.
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English
Start Where You Are
Element Books, 2005
ISBN 9780007190621
Start Where You Are
Shambhala Publications, 2001
ISBN 9781570628399
Pema Chödrön
Start Where You Are
The Conscious LibraryStart Where You Are
Shambhala Publications, 1994
Primera edición
Other works by Pema Chödrön
- The Wisdom of No Escape · 1991
- Awakening Loving-Kindness · 1996
- When Things Fall Apart · 1997
- The Places That Scare You · 2001
- Tonglen · 2001
- Comfortable with Uncertainty · 2002
- Hooked! · 2005
- No Time to Lose · 2005
- Practicing Peace in Times of War · 2006
- Always Maintain a Joyful Mind · 2007
- The Pocket Pema Chödrön · 2008
- Taking the Leap · 2009
- Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change · 2012
- Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better · 2015
- The Compassion Book · 2017
- Welcoming the Unwelcome · 2019
- How We Live Is How We Die · 2022
- Another Kind of Freedom · 2026
- How to Meditate · 2007
- Awakening Compassion · 1995
- Noble Heart · 1998
- Good Medicine · 2001
- From Fear to Fearlessness · 2003
- Pure Meditation · 2004
- Getting Unstuck · 2004
- In Conversation with Alice Walker · 2005
- True Happiness · 2005
- Bodhisattva Mind · 2006
- Don't Bite the Hook · 2007
- This Moment Is the Perfect Teacher · 2008
- Unconditional Confidence · 2009
- Smile at Fear (retreat) · 2011
- Fully Alive · 2012
- Awakening Love · 2012
- Coming Closer to Ourselves · 2012
- Karma · 2013
- The Truth of Our Existence · 2014
- The Courage to Love the World · 2018
- Other recorded retreats · 2010
Sources
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