when everything falls apart pema chodron

I was scared and I was angry and I couldn’t get anything to come back together.” I couldn’t feel any ground under my feet…it was devastating. “It had the effect of throwing me into a totally groundless state. In 1972 her husband announced that he was having an affair and wanted a divorce. If we’re willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. To help you recreate the retreat experience at home, you are also welcome to participate in a period of silence from the end of the retreat session on Friday night until Saturday dinner.

Additional sessions are led by Dale Asrael, a longtime friend of Pema’s and fellow acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. The weekend includes talks, guided meditations, and question-and-answer sessions that are also open to live stream participants. But if we can each feel confident in our innate basic goodness, it will have a profound effect on shifting the cultural paradigm ravaging this precious earth.ĭuring this retreat, we explore practices that can help us contact our fundamental goodness even when we are under stress, overwhelmed, and overburdened, or when we feel we’ve failed at something important to us. Uncertainty, fear, doubt, and aggression, however, can make it difficult for us to access. To be sure, the basic goodness of humanity is fully intact. We are fundamentally open-minded, open-hearted, worthy, and good.

It’s about how we feel about ourselves at the core. It’s not something esoteric or unrelated to us. The Buddhist principle of Basic Goodness not particularly religious or secular. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

When everything falls apart pema chodron