When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Gift Edition)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. |
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User Review - evenlake - LibraryThingA good explanation of some foundational Buddhist beliefs, written with Chodron's typical humility and wisdom. The title is a little off-putting, as it is not really a recovery kind of book, but is for all times, not just difficult ones. Read full review
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User Review - IonaS - LibraryThingPema Chödrön is one of my favourite spiritual authors. I think this is the third of her books I’ve read. I’ll start with a few ”negative” aspects of her books and this book – there is no index, and no ... Read full review
Contents
Intimacy with Fear I | 1 |
When Things Fall Apart | 7 |
This Very Moment Is the Perfect Teacher | 13 |
Relax As It Is | 19 |
Its Never Too Late | 25 |
Not Causing Harm | 31 |
Hopelessness and Death | 37 |
Eight Worldly Dharmas | 45 |
The Love That Will Not Die | 87 |
Going against the Grain | 93 |
Servants of Peace | 97 |
Opinions | 107 |
Secret Oral Instructions | 113 |
Three Methods for Working with Chaos | 119 |
The Trick of Choicelessness | 127 |
Reversing the Wheel of Samsara | 137 |
Six Kinds of Loneliness | 51 |
Curious about Existence | 59 |
Nonaggression and the Four Maras | 65 |
Growing Up | 73 |
Widening the Circle of Compassion | 79 |
The Path Is the Goal | 143 |
Afterword to the 20th Anniversary Edition | 147 |
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Resources | 153 |
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| Title | When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Gift Edition) |
| Author | Pema Chodron |
| Edition | annotated |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1611803896, 9781611803891 |
| Length | 176 pages |
| Subjects | › › Body, Mind & Spirit / Mindfulness & Meditation Religion / Buddhism / Tibetan Self-Help / Personal Growth / General |
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