Authors: Pema Chodron, Will Johnson
ISBN-13: 9781570622595, ISBN-10: 1570622590
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is also the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.
Based on talks given during a one-month meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, this book contains teachings that were intended to inspire and encourage practitioners to remain wholeheartedly awake to everything that occurs and to use the abundant material of daily life as their primary teacher and guide. The message for the retreat participants—and for the reader as well—is to be with oneself without embarrassment or harshness. This is instruction on how to love oneself and one's world.
This Shambhala Pocket Classic is an abridged version of The Wisdom of No Escape.
Preface | ||
1 | Loving-Kindness | 1 |
2 | Satisfaction | 8 |
3 | Finding Our Own True Nature | 13 |
4 | Precision, Gentleness, and Letting Go | 24 |
5 | The Wisdom of No Escape | 44 |
6 | Joy | 49 |
7 | Taking a Bigger Perspective | 55 |
8 | No Such Thing as a True Story | 69 |
9 | Weather and the Four Noble Truths | 79 |
10 | Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose | 91 |
11 | Renunciation | 111 |
12 | Sending and Taking | 123 |
13 | Taking Refuge | 143 |
14 | The Four Reminders | 163 |
Bibliography | 191 | |
Resources | 192 |