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Comfortable with Uncertainty

Pema Chödrön

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2002
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

In this book Tibetan Buddhist nun Pema Chodron 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. Inspired by the Buddhist tradition of the 108-day retreat, the book leads the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path.

Good for readers who want: Buddhism, spirituality, and meditation.

  • Religious aspects of Compassion
  • Compassion
  • Buddhism
  • Spiritual life
  • Meditation
  • Buddhism, doctrines
  • Meditation, buddhism
  • Spiritual life, buddhism

2 About Pema Chödrön

Born 1936

Pema Chödrön (Standard Tibetan: པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།, romanized: padma chos sgron, lit. 'lotus dharma lamp'; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and was principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She retired in 2020.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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