Title: Pema's Wisdom
Review: Pema Chodron speaks to us in a way that is both compassionate (she has "been there, done that") and fierce ("the time is NOW to wake up!) at the same time. Her review of Tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist practice that helps us, very quietly, very profoundly, transform the emotional "stuff" in our lives into compassionate understanding of the "others" in our lives. It guides us in taking full responsibility for all that we experience, and the ways that we react/respond to it. My personal experience with this gem of a book is that it guided me through one of the most difficult times in my life: the death of my father, and coming to terms with the adolescent girl in myself that still held so much anger and resentment toward my mother. Through Tonglen, I was able to very quietly breathe into the dark heavy stuff from my past, and release it with some lightness, as my gift to the Universe, and my own healing.
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