The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
Last updated October 31, 2026
By Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön's talks from a month-long retreat at Gampo Abbey, the Nova Scotia monastery where she teaches, make up this book. Her central claim is that wisdom is found inside ordinary life, with all its irritations and disappointments, rather than in some escape from it. She presents meditation as a means of seeing our habits honestly, and she encourages gentleness toward ourselves so that we can meet joy, grief and other people with the same openness.
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