Start Where You Are

Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
by Pema Chodron 

Shambhala Publications, Boston, Massachusetts   © 1994   154 pp.

An American Buddhist nun, and director of Gampo Abbey, the first Tibetan monastery established for westerners, Pema draws on her long association with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and the ancient but ever-relevant practice of tonglen meditation and accompanying lojong slogans to teach us how to open our hearts. Geared especially to those “living in times of darkness,” this book is indispensable to anyone on a spiritual path. Readers are gently invited to connect with their own suffering, embrace the “messy” parts of their lives, drop the story-lines, and lighten up!

-- reviewed by Megan Greiner



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