The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness
Book Review: A Beautiful, Heart-Opening Short Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Pema Ch?dr?n book for the time being. As always with her material, I am grateful to digest the basic, raw, charming manner in which she conveys some traditional, (quite frankly) sometimes otherwise dry teachings. With her writing and guidance, they are anything but (dry). This book really hits on the necessity of removing our armor, getting out of our comfort zone (no matter what that is), finding out where our personal edge is and lets us to leap from there; to play in the eye of the storm. Even the chapter on tonglen seems more encouraging and compassionate than her other works that I've read, all of which I tremendously enjoyed. This is a tender, bravery-promoting little book that I appreciate rereading whenever I feel a bit numb or scared or too comfortable. Book Review: Simple Wisdom to Clear Your Head
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful set of short lectures that Pema Chodron gave to a group of meditation students that stayed for a month at the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia where she is a resident teacher. The lectures are to the point, deal with anger, addiction, fear, joy, and all the many problems we are faced with not only daily, but constatly in our minds, whether we are aware of them or not. She gives techniques to understand what it is that fills our minds and often poisons our hearts, how to label them so that ultimately we may move past these problems with compassion, understanding and ultimately help put ourselves at ease. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in meditation and/or are suffering from anger, addiction (to anything- shopping, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, love, etc...), or just seek more interpersonal peace.Book Review: What the world needs now
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best book from any spiritual tradition that I've ever read, especially as it applies to everyday life. It brought me kindness, joy, and enormous inspiration, entirely without judgment. Pema Chodron believes we are all essentially good people, here to offer kindness to ourselves and others as a way of life. She invites us to learn to open to ever more challenging situations as a way of living life more fully, and she shows us how. She guides us to focus not on perfection, but the beauty of life lived just as it is. Pema Chodron is a great teacher and role model, and I am deeply grateful to her for writing this book. I will read it again and again. Book Review: Great book, life changing
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a must read for those into meditation and the dharmaBook Review: a masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
i have read many books on spirituality over the years, and this has been one of my top two that most memorably changed my life. (the other one being 'autobiography of a yogi'. it is not that others have not shaped me, but this one was a dramatic shift in thinking for me. i have referred several people to it, quoted from it at times, and would love to see this being read by more, and it is already fairly well known and is in a new cover.
i call pema the goddess of hard times. this book for me was everything i wished that 'when things fall apart' would have been for me. thankfully i didn't stop at that book, and found this one. when things fall apart was forgettable for me. this one was my favorite, and 'start where you are' i found to be good, but i don't seem to quote from it, nor have the fond memories like i do of wisdom of no escape.
pema is a great asset to buddhists and people all around the world seeking more compassion and a greater sense of humanity in their souls. this book is her greatest work as far as i am concerned. well worth a read, well worth 'practicing' not just reading. the concepts are best experienced, not just intellectualized. intellectually they are counter intuitive, and a few friends have reacted without really getting the essence of it which is the practice and inner transformation available.