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When Things Fall Apart
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Her most widely read book. Drawing on talks given at Gampo Abbey, it proposes moving towards pain, fear and loss instead of fleeing them, and presents groundlessness as the very condition of awakening. It explains the practices of tonglen and maitri, the eight worldly concerns and the bodhisattva path in accessible language, and has become a reference book for people in grief or crisis, translated into many languages.
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Authorship note
Like most of her books, it derives from recorded talks and retreats, transcribed and edited with her editors; the author revises the text.
Editions and translations
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English
When Things Fall Apart
Shambhala Publications, 2000
ISBN 9781570623448
Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart
The Conscious LibraryWhen Things Fall Apart
Shambhala Publications, 1997
Primera edición
Español
Cuando todo se derrumba
Gaia Ediciones, 1999
ISBN 9788488242884
Cuando todo se derrumba
Gaia Ediciones, 2012
ISBN 9788484454298
Cuando todo se derrumba
Shambhala Español, 2012
ISBN 9781611800241
Français
Quand tout s'effondre
La Table ronde, 1999
ISBN 9782710308539
Polski
Kiedy życie nas przerasta
Mudra, 2001
ISBN 9788387387051
Deutsch
Wenn alles zusammenbricht
Goldmann, 2001
ISBN 9783442215256
Chino clásico · 文言
當生命陷落時
心靈工坊 (PsyGarden), 2001
ISBN 9789573016311
Türkçe
Herşey Darmadağın Olduğunda
Okyanus Yayınları, 2017
ISBN 9789756529560
Italiano
Se il mondo ti crolla addosso
Feltrinelli, 2017
ISBN 9788807887871
Other works by Pema Chödrön
- The Wisdom of No Escape · 1991
- Start Where You Are · 1994
- Awakening Loving-Kindness · 1996
- The Places That Scare You · 2001
- Tonglen · 2001
- Comfortable with Uncertainty · 2002
- Hooked! · 2005
- No Time to Lose · 2005
- Practicing Peace in Times of War · 2006
- Always Maintain a Joyful Mind · 2007
- The Pocket Pema Chödrön · 2008
- Taking the Leap · 2009
- Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change · 2012
- Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better · 2015
- The Compassion Book · 2017
- Welcoming the Unwelcome · 2019
- How We Live Is How We Die · 2022
- Another Kind of Freedom · 2026
- How to Meditate · 2007
- Awakening Compassion · 1995
- Noble Heart · 1998
- Good Medicine · 2001
- From Fear to Fearlessness · 2003
- Pure Meditation · 2004
- Getting Unstuck · 2004
- In Conversation with Alice Walker · 2005
- True Happiness · 2005
- Bodhisattva Mind · 2006
- Don't Bite the Hook · 2007
- This Moment Is the Perfect Teacher · 2008
- Unconditional Confidence · 2009
- Smile at Fear (retreat) · 2011
- Fully Alive · 2012
- Awakening Love · 2012
- Coming Closer to Ourselves · 2012
- Karma · 2013
- The Truth of Our Existence · 2014
- The Courage to Love the World · 2018
- Other recorded retreats · 2010
Sources
- Open Library: obras y ediciones de Pema Chödrön (comprobación de ISBN por catálogo).
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