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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 294.3444 EAN: 9781590305553 ISBN: 1590305558 Label: Shambhala Manufacturer: Shambhala Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: April 08, 2008 Publisher: Shambhala Release Date: April 08, 2008 Studio: Shambhala Editorial Review: Product Description: This book by the renowned American Buddhist nun offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. Comfortable with Uncertainty does not assume prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making it a perfect introduction to Pema Chödrön's teaching on lovingkindness, meditation, mindfulness, "nowness," letting go, and working with fear and other painful emotions. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Perfect Insight and IntroductionA couple years back my dad got demoted and was potentially going to lose his job. He was facing a lot of uncertainty and was not sure how to deal with it. I first read The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times in a high school philosophy class when I was dealing with a lot of my own personal problems and found it incredibly helpful and selected this book as an introduction to Chodron. Since reading this book my dad has started reading several other books about buddhist ... Read More Rating: - Deeper and deeper - Practical practice for "staying" -living...compassion.Pema is accessible... Her writings are very helpful and exemplify the very compassion she teaches for herself and for ourselves and others...Her writing is grounded while pointing to the "ineffable". She makes Buddhism and meditation more ... well, meaningful for those in the trenches...all of us...very healing...simply good advice that she makes even clearer!!!Thank you Pema Chodron for your life and sharing so much of it. Another great book!!! Rating: - A best of that's really goodIt's a best of some of her writings, and it's really good. It's a nice concise set of one and two page sections from her other books. Something that I found myself reading a second time. Rating: - WowOnce in a great while a book like this comes along. It's so honest and plain and challenging at the same time. The short chapters and conciseness furthermore make it all the more accessible. Rating: - A breeath of fresh airThis book is quite enlightening. I can forsee reading many more of Chodron's books. |
