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When Things Fall Apart

Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Edition)

Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Gift Edition)

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron

By Pema Chodron
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By Pema Chodron
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Sep 26, 2000 | ISBN 9780834821002

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    About When Things Fall Apart

    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.

    About When Things Fall Apart

    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.

    About When Things Fall Apart

    The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses:

    · Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage
    · Communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down
    · Practices for reversing habitual patterns
    · Methods for working with chaotic situations
    · Ways for creating effective social action

    About When Things Fall Apart

    How can we go on living when things fall apart—when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety? Pema Chödrön’s answer to that question contains some spectacularly good news: there is a fundamental happiness readily available to each one of us, no matter how difficult things seem to be. To find it, according to traditional Buddhist teaching, we must learn to stop running from suffering and instead actually learn to approach it—fearlessly, compassionately, and with curiosity. This radical practice enables us to use all situations, even very painful ones, as means for discovering the truth and love that are utterly indestructible.

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    About Pema Chodron

    Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and The Places That Scare You,… More about Pema Chodron

    About Pema Chodron

    Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and The Places That Scare You,… More about Pema Chodron

    About Pema Chodron

    Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and The Places That Scare You,… More about Pema Chodron

    About Pema Chodron

    Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chögyam Trungpa, the renowned meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and The Places That Scare You,… More about Pema Chodron

    Product Details

    Category: Religion | Philosophy | Personal Growth

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Shambhala
    Jun 07, 2016 | 176 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781611803433

    Category: Religion | Philosophy | Personal Growth

    Hardcover | $24.95
    Published by Shambhala
    Jun 07, 2016 | 176 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781611803891

    Category: Religion | Philosophy | Personal Growth

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Shambhala
    Sep 26, 2000 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780834821002

    Category: Religion | Philosophy | Personal Growth | Audiobooks

    CD | $19.95
    Published by Shambhala Audio
    Dec 26, 2007 | 150 Minutes | ISBN 9781590305454

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    Praise

    “Perhaps what makes Pema’s message resonate so strongly with people, no matter what their religion or spiritual path, is its universality. Each of us has experienced heartache; how we interact with that feeling, Pema says, can create the possibility of a more joyful life.”
    —O, The Oprah Magazine
     
    “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, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and activist

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