If you’ve ever found yourself chanting ‘I hate my life’ or ‘This is all a mistake,’ then we have a book to recommend
Photo: saemilee/DigitalVision Vectors If you’ve ever found yourself chanting I hate my life or This is all a mistake, then I have a book to recommend. One summer when it felt like everything was out of control — there had been a breakup, a move, job changes, and some other personal-life tumult — I came across Pema Chödrön’s books. She’s a Buddhist nun in her 80s who lives in an abbey in Nova Scotia and advocates for embracing the worst parts of uncertainty.
Well, okay, I thought. I could use some help. I could use some new insights. So I bought Chödrön’s best-known book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. I hadn’t thought I’d be into books with titles like that, but then I was. Born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in New York City in 1936 , Chödrön began studying Tibetan Buddhism in 1972 and became an ordained nun in 1974, at 38. During her studies, she was given the name Pema Chödrön, which roughly translates to “lamp of the truth.
At first, it seemed gloomy, but in reality it was surprisingly light. It was funny, too. “As long as you are wishing for things to change, they never will,” Chödrön writes in Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living. “As long as you’re wanting yourself to get better, you won’t.” Well, shoot.
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