![]() ![]() To undo our very ancient and very stuck habitual patterns of mind requires that we begin to turn around some of our most basic assumptions. ![]() ![]() To seek for some lasting security is futile. To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic. To illustrate, here is a quote from the section entitled Getting the Knack of Hopelessness: On the contrary, she gets straight to the point and addresses reality exactly the way it is, helpfully destroying any unrealistic notions that might stand in the way of us seeing that reality. ![]() Pema Chodron has a great talent for making Buddhist teachings and principles directly relevant to daily life, and she doesn’t beat around the bush or dilute her message to appease sensitive types. Read a section in the morning before heading out to work and you’re sure to have something useful to ponder as you go through each day. There are 108 sections – most of which run for just a page or two – and that makes it easy to use the book as a handy source of inspiration. Published in the Shambhala Pocket Classics series, this volume is light and compact enough for you to carry around on your person, but the weight of its content is far greater. The Pocket Pema Chodron is a small but perfectly formed collection of extracts from Pema Chodron’s various other best-selling titles. ![]()
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