When Things Fall Apart PDF Download

June 6, 2022 Self Development

Download When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron PDF eBook free. The “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times” encourages readers to make some very positive changes in the life.

When Things Fall Apart Book Summary

“When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times” encourages readers to make some very positive changes in the life. Pema is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America. Pema has the unique ability to write in a way that you feel like a loving friend is giving you really solid, helpful, kind advice that is accessible. Her wise counsel and perspective through you a life jacket when you think you are going to drown.

In this book, she illustrates by describing a pivotal moment in her life when things fell apart. In her youth, her husband left her and she felt that loss of her whole world with anger and fear. But out of that experience, she found Buddhism, a new life, and a new vocation. She eventually became thankful for the experience, and that is a major theme of the book the idea that life is all beginnings and endings. If we can understand that, and accept it, we can go a long way in coping with the bad times.