The Places That Scare You, Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You, Pema Chodron
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The Places That Scare You
A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Author: Pema Chödrön

Series: Shambhala

Narrator: Joanna Rotte

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2017

Synopsis

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This audiobook teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.

About The Author

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and is currently a student of the Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She is the author of many books and audiobooks, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and Don't Bite the Hook.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 06, 2009

I was at B&N looking for some other book when I mistakenly picked up this one so I placed it back on the shelf and thought nothing of it. The next day I went back to B&N to purchase a different book and I accidently pick this same book up AGAIN. SO I placed it back on the shelf (the top shelf) and c......more

Goodreads review by Esra on September 12, 2013

The most important part of this book is the last one, being in between. That is the place where I find myself over and over again. Here how Pema explains it; "We are told about the pain of chasing after pleasure and futility of running from pain. We hear about the joy of awakening, of realizing our in......more

Goodreads review by Roy on April 29, 2018

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate fully in our lives. In my life, times of crisis or great change, though painful, have had the power to reawaken me. I remind myself of what is important and what i......more

Goodreads review by Peter on June 18, 2014

I hate self-help books almost as much as I hate sentences that begin with I. It’s the writing, which is uniformly poor, at least I think so. Bad writing is hand-holding writing. I’m not a dog in a collar being taken for a walk on a leash. But maybe I should be. My wife gave me THE PLACES THAT SCARE Y......more

Goodreads review by Will on January 26, 2013

I've always been leery of the self-help genre. I'm mistrustful of anyone who tells me how to think, feel, act. I've also seen people read self-help books like serial novels, always chasing some specter of an ideal self with the assumption that their current self is somehow inadequate or broken. The......more

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