Start Where You Are : A Guide to Compassionate Living

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Summary: Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
Review: This book takes a lay person through a wonderful journey of ones self. It enlightens one to unlock your own compassion that is trapped beneath this wonderfully crazy exterior we show everyone. This book will teach you how to live NOW. It will teach you how to separate yourself from anger. The book instructs you on a few basic types of meditation and how to change the way you react to everything. Most of all, it awakens a part of you that you may have never have known. This is my favorite book. I highly recommend it to everyone regardless of your religious views, the teachings in this book are valid for all of us as humans.

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Summary: One in a thousand!
Review: This is one of the very best Buddhist books I've read (and for better or worse I've read tons). Pema Chodron's guide is a skillful and relevant spin on ancient Tibetan Buddhist teachings, known as "lojong" or spiritual development. Give this book to yourself, or to a friend, Buddhist or non-Buddhist matters not.

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Summary: A gift
Review: This is the most meaningful Buddhist book I've read. She clarifies so much, e.g., how to deal with unsettling thoughts--like "bubbles" she advises............................................

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Summary: Start Where You Are Was my Bible
Review: This was the first book recommended to me on Buddhism. It is a wonderful, insightful, simple and direct book about accepting who you are. Too often we're searching to be someone else. Our difficulty lying between who we are and who we want to be. This book puts into focus how we can find wisdom, love and appreciation for the person we are at this moment. Sounds a bit sappy, but there's a powerful message in this book. It's a very easy read unlike other books that confuse the reader with concepts that aren't easily translated into our western understanding. Wonderful!

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Summary: wonderful read
Review: This was the first book recommended to me on Buddhism. It is a wonderful, insightful, simple and direct book about accepting who you are. Too often we're searching to be someone else. Our difficulty lying between who we are and who we want to be. This book puts into focus how we can find wisdom, love and appreciation for the person we are at this moment. Sounds a bit sappy, but there's a powerful message in this book. It's a very easy read unlike other books that confuse the reader with concepts that aren't easily translated into our western understanding. Wonderful!