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The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness : How to Love Yourself and Your World Paperback – July 31, 2004

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Massmarket edition of this spiritual 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. In The Wisdom of No Escape, bestselling author Pema Chodron shows us the profound value of our situation of 'no exit' from the ups and downs of life. This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestations -- about making friends with ourselves and our world and embracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and confusion that characterizes the human experience. It urges us to wake up wholeheartedly to everything and to use the abundant, richly textured fabric of everyday life as our primary spiritual teacher and guide.

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Massmarket edition of this spiritual 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. In The Wisdom of No Escape, bestselling author Pema Chodron shows us the profound value of our situation of 'no exit' from the ups and downs of life. This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestations -- about making friends with ourselves and our world and embracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and confusion that characterizes the human experience. It urges us to wake up wholeheartedly to everything and to use the abundant, richly textured fabric of everyday life as our primary spiritual teacher and guide.

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd; New edition edition (July 31, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780007190614
ISBN-13: 978-0007190614
ASIN: 0007190611
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 147 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,494,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6539 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Eastern > Buddhism
- #127820 in Books > Self-Help
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The most valuable book in my library.

January 5, 2018

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It's difficult to go at this because any reader might come to the piece from so many different perspectives. This is not a work of scholarship, nor is it evangelical. And I find each of those points greatly in its favor. I think it would be best to read it after checking out a survey source to familiarize yourself with the essentials of the tradition. I strongly suggest Huston Smith. Smith was a preeminent scholar of world religion and a Buddhist practitioner (among several other spiritual traditions-really!) for many years while maintaining his identity as a Christian: a fascinating guy whose work deserves a lengthy review of its own.

PC's central point is that all of this stuff is about developing genuine compassion/Lovingkindness/Maitri for ourselves, and thereby for the other living beings of our world. Nothing here about floating around under the ceiling, holding your breath for an hour and a half...or finally coming to THE TRUE RELIGION...or THE TRUE BUDDHISM, either. It's about how to live well by incorporating an honest spiritual practice and set of rational beliefs into our life. I would also like to stress the importance of PC being a native English speaker. Sadly many people have a misunderstanding of this tradition because so many of it's early teachers had to rely on literal translations as a result of their not being sufficiently fluent to explain the essentially spiritual concepts that they were trying to put across. Obviously, this commentary is a huge fan letter, and everyone will not come away with the same opinion. Regardless, The Wisdom...is well worth a look..hey, it's really pretty short😇

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Insightful, Easy Read

July 13, 2016

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Very insightful read. I was getting migraines and as soon as I started reading this book, they went away. When I stopped reading, they came back. I realized that I was practicing what she had written as I was reading. The whole practice put my mind at ease, and that is probably why I didn't notice the migraine. This book is great for everyone, especially those with anger issues. Seriously, it can and will help if you are able to keep and opened mind and read it for what it is. Very easy reading.

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Good daily reading

January 8, 2016

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The book is a collection of talks the author gave during a month long retreat. I found that made most chapters perfect for a morning read before work to get my mind started on the right track.

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This book has spoken volumes in my life

August 29, 2018

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Each short chapter has such meat that I am able to sit with and meditate so to make the information my own. EVERYTHING I have been going through has been addressed in this book. AND it is so simple to give myself this loving kindness as I sit with the feeling and then let it go. This is a MUST READ. Stay open to the concepts. Allow this to minister to your spirit as it has mine!

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not at all preachy! love it.

August 16, 2018

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i will update this when i have finished the book...but i just felt impassioned to say how much i love the authors style of writing. so many authors do not write in a humble style. this author is not preachy at all. nor egocentric. i love that.

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Another favorite Buddhist book

September 13, 2015

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Fantastic book by Pema, right up there with When Things Fall Apart as my favorite of hers. Heartfelt, very wise, very gentle. Just what I need to hear. Although it was published in 1989 or 1990, it is no less cogent now than it was then. That's the thing about Buddhist books -- they always speak to you if/when you're ready for them. The teachings are as alive today as they ever were.

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An honor to read

March 23, 2017

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Pena Chodron has written many books. This book like her other ones remind us of how precious and infinite life can be.

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Patrick D. Goonan

Very practical, accessible and well-written....

June 8, 2007

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This is one of my favorite books by Pema Chodron. It not only does a very good job of describing the essence of Buddhism, but it goes beyond that in making Tibetan Buddhism more understandable and relevant to a Western audience without deveating from the tradition. In short, it contains the heart of the teachings of the Vajrayana. A nice complimentary book if you are interested in going deeper into Tibetan Buddhism is Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism. These books compliment each other and the latter puts all of the Buddhist traditions in historical context. Huston Smith's essay in The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions or Buddhism: A Concise Introduction. You get more bang for your buck with the former Huston Smith book, however.

The fundamental teaching of the Buddha involves the following realizations: 1) Life is suffering; 2) The cause of suffering is selfish desire; 3) To get rid of selfish desire, follow the eightfold path. The essence of the eightfold path is a moral life grounded in a strong loving-kindness practice (A Mahayana emphasis, but true of all schools). This book provides precisely that -- a path of loving-kindness that any person could follow and apply to their life. When asked what religion the Dalai was, he once said... "my religion is loving-kindess." While the Dalai Lama didn't officially endorse the book that I know of, certainly it is written in keeping with this spirit.

This book covers a LOT of ground in short volume of about 108 pages. It looks at the existential situation of not being able to escape our life and the human condition which is characterized by suffering. The Buddha said as his last words, "be a lamp unto yourselves." I believe the intent here was that no super mommy or daddy in the sky is going to come down and save you from the human condition. You must look deeply to see the truth and this will liberate you from samsara or the cycle of suffering. In this book, Pema Chodron describes the Buddha's teachings and more importantly practices to help you to arrive at a place of loving-kindness and equanimity.

What I most like about this book is that she keeps things simple. She also describes Tonglen practice and other forms of meditation and habits of thought that cultivate a mind that is not locked in conditioned thinking. Krishnamurti once said, "seeing the truth deeply is what liberates, not your efforts to be free." A corallary to this might be... yes... but what limits how deeply you can see is your depth of compassion for others, but primarily for yourself. This book is a manual about how to cultivate a loving-kindness that allows you to penetrate the insufficiency of living for things like money, sex, power and status. It is a good read for anyone.

If you are interested in a somewhat different Western perspective or something to contrast these writings with then try A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life. This book by Jack Kornfield emphasizes an earlier Buddhist tradition namely the Theravada (Way of the Elders). Mahayana Buddhism was an outgrowth of these teachings and Tibetan Buddism (Vajrayana) a further extension and elaboration. Jack Kornfield is a Western psychologist who spent a number of years in Thailand as a Buddhist monk and his perspective is accessible, entertaining, practical and complimentary to this book. If you are looking for a more integrative read that relates to Western Psychology directly try Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation. This is a more difficult read, but extremely worthwhile. There are other recommendations on my listmania lists of this is your area of interest.

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