Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
About This Book
Organized around the Tibetan Buddhist practice of lojong — mind-training through 59 pithy slogans — this book offers a systematic approach to working with one's own mind in all situations. Pema shows how each slogan, from "Train in the three difficulties" to "Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one," can be applied to the specific irritations, fears, and joys of daily life to gradually transform one's relationship to self and others.
What You'll Learn
The lojong slogans are not moral commandments but practical instructions for working with the mind as it actually is — wild, distracted, and continuously reactive. "Start where you are" means beginning with the actual texture of your experience right now, not with an idealized version. Tonglen (taking and sending) practice — breathing in suffering, breathing out ease — directly reverses the ego's habitual movement of grasping and rejection.
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