Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion Author: Pema Chodron | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BBXJH68 | Format: PDF
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion Description
This
book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate
compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. 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.
Comfortable
with Uncertainty
does
not assume prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making it a perfect
introduction to Chödrön's teaching. It features the most essential
and stirring passages from Chödrön's previous books, exploring topics
such as lovingkindness, meditation, mindfulness, "nowness," letting
go, and working with fear and other painful emotions. Through the course of
this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and
overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.
- File Size: 303 KB
- Print Length: 242 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1590300785
- Publisher: Shambhala Publications (September 14, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BBXJH68
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
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You either can read this book from beginning to end using it as a meditation guide for the warrior meditator, or you can drop into it and see what you get; also good.
It is unfailingly wise and compassionate in it's approach which is that meditation is not the path up the mountain but the path down into yourself and that accepting yourself as you are is what is important and difficult. This requires courage. The current ideas of changing yourself or self-improvement are yet another subtle attack on yourself.
The ironic miracle, of course, is that abandoning goals of self-improvement and accepting yourself leads to change, and you become someone you like better whether you like it or not.
Underneath all our fear of ourselves, way down deep, we find find our "wounded, softened hearts" and we discover that we, all of us, are compassionate loving beings. Now isn't that a hope for the world?
If you think this might be a good idea, then this book is a wonderful guide. It is not an answer, but it is a gentle helping hand along The Way.
By Brett Shand
This small book contains 108 short chapters taken from Pema's four main/prior books (The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, The Places that Scare You, When Things Fall Apart). It includes her signature stories such as pp. 40-2: the 4 Maras-"turning arrows into flowers", pp. 61-2: the teaching of heaven & hell to a samurai, p. 103: the empty boat, p. 111: lions and the strawberry, and p. 115: the Demon of Now in the cave. It also some fine quotes such as: p. 25: "Resisting Life causes suffering," p. 62: "Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle [of sacred space] has come to teach us what we need to know," and p. 91: "We cannot be in the present moment and run our story lines at the same time." Perhaps best of all, it addresses not only on-the-spot Tonglen but also on-the-spot compassion and equanimity. So, reading it may provide you with on-the-spot joy!
By Neal J. Pollock
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