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Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears |  | Author: Pema Chodron
Publisher: Shambhala
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 4306
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1590306341
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3444
EAN: 9781590306345
ASIN: 1590306341
Publication Date: September 8, 2009
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In this book Pema Chödrön shows us how to break free of destructive patterns in our lives and experience a new sense of freedom and happiness. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of shenpa, she helps us to see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to see these patterns, we can begin to change our lives for the better.
The key is learning a new way of facing the inevitable difficulties and insecurities of our daily lives: we must learn how to stay present and open our hearts. “This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities,” explains Pema. “These qualities have always been with us but perhaps have gotten buried and almost forgotten. They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others."
This book gives us the insights and practices we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities. In her friendly and encouraging style, Pema Chödrön helps us to take a bold leap toward a new way of living—one that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.
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 Read it!! June 27, 2010
Lainy
This book is for everyone who wants to become more open to getting to know and respect themselves which breeds compassion for others. It's easier than you think. Another hit by Pema Chodron.
Five Stars!!! June 10, 2010
K. L. Hanson (Dayton, OH USA)
I didn't think it was possible, but Pema has once again outdone herself. She is SO understandable and so down to earth. I've had this book for a little over a week and it's already wrinkly with highlighting. I've read every one of her books, and I don't think it's a compilation of other material, I think it's an excellent offering of the wisdom and insight of Pema that just keeps on coming. Thank you, Pema!!!!!!
Invaluable Text for Working With Shenpa May 12, 2010
Ellery P. Hamann (WI, USA)
This book is invaluable for learning about and then working with your Shenpa. Shenpa, as Pema explains in the book, is that sticky, thick, hooked quality that comes up RIGHT when someone says a mean word, something doesn't go your way, you have a craving or any sort of aversion...Pema skillfully explains it in greater detail and how to work with it and gain a new relationship with Shenpa.
Warning: If you have listened to the "Getting Unstuck" retreat recording - don't get this book because 70% of the book's content is from that recording. Although, then again you can't hear the teachings enough times.
Happy reading!
 Taking the Leap April 2, 2010
Lorrie W. Grillo (Denver, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a selection for my book group and was unavailable at the library. Luckily it was well-priced at Amazon so I purchased it without reading it beforehand. I have read other Pema Chodron books and am familiar with her lovely voice, her understandable descriptions of Buddhist practices and her gentle message; she does not admonish or point fingers -- except at herself. This is a small book -- and probably could have been smaller. Her message is a good one but doesn't lend itself to multiple chapters. I read it to discuss it -- and wouldn't recommend it for a book group as there's not much to discuss. This would be a great book as an introduction to Pema's work; it would be a great book as a gift to someone desiring to learn more about Buddhist meditation.
Make some tea, find a comfortable chair and enjoy this book that challenges and provokes thoughtful goodness... March 9, 2010
R. Neil Scott (Murfreesboro, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's a sense of ... well, calmness to this book. A peacefulness that makes reading it not only enlightening -- for lack of a better word -- and, peaceful. This is good, because one needs to stop, relax and open one's mind and heart to be receptive to change and trying another approach to whatever is vexing you.
It's a tough, competitive and chaotic world -- from the noise pollution of talking heads on tv pulling us one way or the other, politics becoming more and more polar -- my side's right and your's has got it all wrong -- to rushing here and there to meet work deadlines and sorting through what's best for family or employees. Stumbling on a book like this is like finding a pint of banana pudding in with your bag lunch -- it'll change your whole perspective.
So, what's it all about? Hard to summarize, but here's a taste: "As human beings we have the potential to disentangle ourselves from old habits, and [encourage] the potential to love and care about each other...[however] it's as if we are always at a crossroad, continually choosing which way to go. Moment by moment we can choose to go forward toward further clarity and ahppiness or toward confusion and pain."
Ok, so far so good -- but, what's the point? Pema Chodron is really laying down a challenge to the reader -- here it is: "For many, spiritual practice represents a way to relax and a way to access peace of mind. We want to feel calm, more focused; and with our frantic, stressful lives, who can blame us? Nevertheless, we have a responsibility to think bigger than that these days. If spiritual practice is relaxing, if it gives us some peace of mind, that's great-- but is this personal satisfaction helping us to address what's happening in the world? The main question is, are we living in a way that adds further aggression and self-centeredness to the mix, or are we adding some much needed sanity?"
Thus, we are offered a treatise on how we can train right now to call upon our inate spiritual being "to see what helps and what hurts, what escalates aggression and what uncovers our good-heartedness...to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around...[as we realize that] now, more than ever, we are all in this together."
Make some tea, find a comfortable chair and sit back and enjoy a book that challenges and provokes thoughtful, forward-thinking goodness.
R. Neil Scott
Middle Tennessee State University
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