With geopolitical tensions and the threat of violence flaring all over the world, people everywhere are experiencing a heightened sense of vulnerability and helplessness. But there is hope. Pema Chodron here shows us how to identify the underlying causes of these tensions and how we can really contribute to creating a more peaceful world--by starting right where we are. She draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression, hatred, and war, explaining that they lie nowhere but within our own hearts and minds. And she offers practical techniques all of us can use to work for peace in our own lives, at the level of our habits of thought and action. It's never too late, she tells us, to look within and discover a new way of living and to transform not only our personal lives but our whole world.

Practicing Peace, Pema Chodron, Shambhala Publications, Pocket Paperback (3 x 4.5 inch), 104 pages, 2018, $14.95

Pema Chodron is one of the most recognizable Buddhist teachers in the world today, though when she ordained as a nun nearly forty years ago, fame was hardly her objective. The objective, she reports, was to find a way to let go of her habits and fears in order to better help others. But her teaching became such a help to so many that her books and audios became best-sellers, and somehow fame ensued.

Pema Chodron, born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City in 1936, was raised in Connecticut and spent the first period of her life as a wife, mother, and schoolteacher. The path toward monasticism began when she met her teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. She went on to found Gampo Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Westerners, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Though she spends a good deal of her time either in that remote spot or on solitary retreat, her insightful teachings have reached far and wide to have a real effect on the lives of millions of people.

CONTENTS: Practicing Peace
	Acknowledgments	ix
1.	Practicing Peace	1
2.	The Courage to Wait	25
3.	Not Biting the Hook	45
4.	Changing Our Attitude toward Pain	55
5.	Compassionate Abiding	71
6.	Positive Insecurity	77
	Resources	93
	About the Author	97