How to Live in a World of Change: Three Buddhist Teachings for Modern Life

We all strive to keep what is dear to us and get rid of what we find unpleasant. This drive of the human mind doesn’t align with the reality of life: everything constantly changes, and no one can control these changes. How to live in a world where nothing can guarantee stability, not go mad from anxiety, and—moreover—use this situation as a path to long-term happiness?

Western well-known Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön answers this question by explaining, in modern and accessible language, the so-called “Three Buddhist Vows.”

The book contains teachings of the Buddha and other teachers, as well as practical meditations. In addition, the author openly shares her own experience. Before becoming a nun, the American Pema Chödrön lived a fairly ordinary life: she worked as a schoolteacher, was married twice, and had three children. In her books she often mentions that it was difficulties in personal relationships that helped her find answers to deep questions and change herself.