Pema Chödrön, an 83-year-old American Tibetan Buddhist nun, thinks you’re a good person. In fact, she thinks that everyone is a good person. Some just don't have an “awakened heart,” or to use the Buddhist term, bodhichitta.
In her new book Welcoming the Unwelcome, Chödrön moves past her usual style of writing in poetry and strict spiritual guidance and instead into a vulnerable teaching about how to overcome the pain of the world by explaining how she was led to do exactly that.
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