The Wisdom of No Escape, and the Path of Loving-Kindness

The Wisdom of No Escape, and the Path of Loving-Kindness

by Pema Chodron

Shambhala, Boston, Massachusetts        © 1991     110 pp.


Simple, folksy, accessible, alive — these are some of the ways to describe the series of teachings in this short volume. Given by a Buddhist nun in the tradition of her teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, they exemplify some basic points of Buddhism. She points out the universality of our desires to avoid (escape from) uncomfortable parts of our lives and of our futile attempts to hold on to preferable experiences. Focusing on the idea that to try to escape the experiences of human life is to bring more suffering, she suggests ways to face what we all encounter and use it to wake up. With simplicity, clarity and heart, she presents a few relevant practices to do wherever one is on the path, so that any reader truly wishing to wake up can find little excuse for remaining completely asleep.

— reviewed by Dawn Kurzka

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