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| Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion | 
 enlarge | Author: Pema Chodron
Publisher: Shambhala
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 42420
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1590300785
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3444
EAN: 9781590300787
ASIN: 1590300785
Publication Date: December 30, 2003
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Product Description
This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path. Comfortable with Uncertainty does not assume prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making it a perfect introduction to Chödrön's teaching. It features the most essential and stirring passages from Chödrön's previous books, exploring topics such as lovingkindness, meditation, mindfulness, "nowness," letting go, and working with fear and other painful emotions. Through the course of this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.
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 RX: Listen and repeat October 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listen to Pema CDs in my car. My only problem is that when I park, I wait for Pema to complete a thought so I can turn off the car. But she keeps going seamlessly on. These CDs are a reading of her book, which was written in complete sentences. So I can turn off the car when the reader pauses.
I like the voice of the reader, calm with enough inflection to carry the meaning of the sentences.
Let me comment on the person who said that it was too difficult to read. Listen to the CDs. What you can grasp, you grasp. Listen to them again. Ah, a little more of it clicks with you. This is why I like listening to the CDs rather than reading the books.
A Perfect Insight and Introduction August 20, 2008
A couple years back my dad got demoted and was potentially going to lose his job. He was facing a lot of uncertainty and was not sure how to deal with it. I first read The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times in a high school philosophy class when I was dealing with a lot of my own personal problems and found it incredibly helpful and selected this book as an introduction to Chodron. Since reading this book my dad has started reading several other books about buddhist spirituality and has pursued meditation, all of which have helped him immensely both then and now. This book serves as a great tool for maintaining spiritual health and a comprehensive introduction to Buddhist spirituality and Pema Chodron.
Deeper and deeper - Practical practice for "staying" -living...compassion. August 15, 2008
Pema is accessible... Her writings are very helpful and exemplify the very compassion she teaches for herself and for ourselves and others...Her writing is grounded while pointing to the "ineffable". She makes Buddhism and meditation more ... well, meaningful for those in the trenches...all of us...very healing...simply good advice that she makes even clearer!!!Thank you Pema Chodron for your life and sharing so much of it. Another great book!!!
A best of that's really good December 29, 2007
It's a best of some of her writings, and it's really good. It's a nice concise set of one and two page sections from her other books. Something that I found myself reading a second time.
Wow August 27, 2007
Once in a great while a book like this comes along. It's so honest and plain and challenging at the same time. The short chapters and conciseness furthermore make it all the more accessible.
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