Book description
A guide to making the most of life, through bad times as well as good,
from bestselling author Pema Chodron. This accessible book has been on
the US bestseller lists consistently for four years now.
This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestations -
embracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and
confusion that characterizes the human experience. Pema Chödrön shows us
the profound value of our situation of 'no escape' from the ups and
downs of life. 'As one of Pema Chodron's grateful students, I have
been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep
opening wider my own heart.'
Alice Walker
'Pema's deep experience and her fresh way of looking at things are like
mountain water - clear and deep.'
Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the
Laundry Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and one of the
foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation
master. She is the author of 'The Wisdom of No Escape,' 'Start Where You
Are,' and the best-selling 'When Things Fall Apart.' She is the resident
teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan
monastry in North America established for Westerners.
