When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Chodron, Pema - 1997

Boston: Shambhala, 1997. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine+ jacket now housed in archival mylar. Please see photos.. Octavo in orange pictorial jacket; xi, 148 pages; 23 cm; bibliographical references (page 147). "Describes a traditional Buddhist approach to suffering and how embracing the painful situation and using communication, negative habits, and challenging experiences leads to emotional growth and happiness." -Publisher. Contents: Intimacy with Fear -- When Things Fall Apart -- This Very Moment Is the Perfect Teacher -- Relax As It Is -- It's Never Too Late -- Not Causing Harm -- Hopelessness and Death -- Eight Worldly Dharmas -- Six Kinds of Loneliness -- Curious about Existence -- Nonaggression and the Four Maras -- Growing Up -- Widening the Circle of Compassion -- The Love That Will Not Die -- Going against the Grain -- Servants of Peace -- Opinions -- Secret Oral Instructions. Three Methods for Working with Chaos -- The Trick of Choicelessness -- Reversing the Wheel of Samsara -- The Path Is the Goal.