Best Pema Chodron books

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	Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears Amazon Price: $10.63 List Price: $21.95
	When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Library) A reader writes: "This book has resided on the shelf next to my bed for many years and has been read often. Reading through a few reviews at this site it is clear many people are willing to listen to Pema Chodron's uncompromising words about the challenges of being human. For those people seeking a few comforting bromides, who expected a self-help book, this material must surely be unwelcome. But it is far from trite and certainly not depressing. Tibetan Buddhists practice in the charnal grounds not because they're depressives, but because life ends in death for all of us. And charnal grounds in Tibet were places where hacked up bodies were fed to circling vultures...no quickly slipping a deceased body into a casket to avoid confronting the withered body or the odors associated with illness and death for these Buddhists." Amazon Price: $10.69 List Price: $18.95
	The Pocket Pema Chodron (Shambhala Pocket Classics) A reader writes: "This is one of the best times I can have while reading this small pocket-book. I keep it in my car most of the time; when ever I'm stressed because of heavy traffic, stressful day, . . . . whatever it may be, Pema Chodron brings me back down to earth, with my feet on the cool, refreshing ground, and my mind sinks into blissfulness. Every different one I read, brings me happiness and within my soul." Amazon Price: $3.42 List Price: $7.95

A mother of two turned Buddhist nun. It's not a common happening, and it was even more rare when Deirdre Blomfield-Brown did it, because the Tibetan Buddhist nun's tradition no longer existed. So despite being a student of Mahayana Buddhism, she had to go around the world to Hong Kong where she was ordained in a Theravada lineage of Buddhism.

While this was a long journey, it is not as strange as it may seem at first sight: in Buddhism the teaching lineages are not the same as the lineages of monks and nuns. The latter have to do with ritual, not teachings.

However, it was ground breaking: she was the first western woman in the Vajrayana tradition to go for biksuni (nun) initiation.

Having suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, she knows what she's talking about when she tells us to face up to the darkest in our lives.

Her teachings

Like her teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche her way of teaching is very down to earth. She has a knack for relating the deep philosophical teachings of Buddhism to every day life.

On this page I've found you her three most popular books.

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