By Pema Chodron. Shambala publications. 1996. 172 pages
***** excellent
This Buddhist classic consist of talks at a one month retreat in the spring of 1989. They were intended to inspire the participants to train wholeheartedly awake to everything that occurred and to use the abundance of daily as a primary guide and teaching. This message of these talks is to love oneself with embarrassment or harassment. This is instruction on how to alleviate human misery at a personal and global level. Bibliography.