When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chodron
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chodron

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Overview

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Things do fall apart, and when they do you’ll want to have this book in your mind and on your shelf to meet the negatives head on. Pulling from Buddhist teachings, there is not a let-down that Chodron isn’t ready to help you not just cope with, but thrive in.

Pema Chödrön's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth—now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema—makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library.

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611803433
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 06/07/2016
Edition description: Anniversary
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 10,358
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, including The Places That Scare You and Living Beautifully.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 Intimacy with Fear 1

2 When Things Fall Apart 7

3 This Very Moment Is the Perfect Teacher 13

4 Relax As It Is 19

5 It's Never Too Late 25

6 Not Causing Harm 31

7 Hopelessness and Death 37

8 Eight Worldly Dharmas 45

9 Six Kinds of Loneliness 51

10 Curious about Existence 59

11 Nonaggression and the Four Maras 65

12 Growing Up 73

13 Widening the Circle of Compassion 79

14 The Love That Will Not Die 87

15 Going against the Grain 93

16 Servants of Peace 97

17 Opinions 107

18 Secret Oral Instructions 113

19 Three Methods for Working with Chaos 119

20 The Trick of Choicelessness 127

21 Reversing the Wheel of Samsara 137

22 The Path Is the Goal 143

Afterword to the 20th Anniversary Edition 147

Bibliography 151

Resources 153

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Pema Chodron is one of those spiritual teachers who brings ancient wisdom to bear upon our daily triumphs and tragedies. . . . Incredibly wise and poignantly practical."—Spirituality & Health

"Chödrön's book is filled with useful advice about how Buddhism helps readers to cope with the grim realities of modern life, including fear, despair, rage and the feeling that we are not in control of our lives . . . Chödrön demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives."—Publishers Weekly

"This is a book that could serve you for a lifetime."—Natural Health

"As one of Pema Chödrön's grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart."—Alice Walker

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