Do you want to read some of what you circled? It’s a work — like all works of spiritual genius — that speaks from the nooks and crannies and depths of a particular tradition, while conveying truths about humanity writ large.
That’s why there is this sledgehammer of now-ness: whoa, this is this constant thing that is happening, and it is not just going away because we want it to.
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That’s kind of how I feel, reading the book, too. Stream the On Being with Krista Tippett episode, Devendra Banhart — ‘When Things Fall Apart’, free & on demand on iHeartRadio.
Tippett: Well, I like to think that what this gets at a bit is the inadequacy of words, so that that hope is not — that that contains a meaning that is different from this hope/fear, this fear/hope. At the bottom we discover water … Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.”.
Reading the newspaper — I’m gonna try the tonglen, [laughs] because I can’t read it. Tippett: Well, for doing the 101 tonglen, the way you described it really corresponds to how I feel Pema Chödrön describes it in this book. They come together and they fall apart.
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In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beauty by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön. Krista Tippett created and leads The On Being Project and hosts the On Being radio show and podcast. There’s so many reasons why this book is useful. It’s not about being heroic — it’s not about being heroic.
And those outer obstacles will never really stop coming. Tippett: Would you — I would just love to hear you read these two paragraphs. And this is real, concentrated suffering. It has been for so many of us in this year of pandemic, and Cloud Cult is on every playlist Krista makes. What am I talking about, “bodhichitta”?
Tippett: You know, I use the word “hope” a lot, and I always use it, and I always say hope is muscular; hope is a muscle; hope is a choice, and hope isn’t like optimism, which is wishful thinking. But it’s a compounded suffering now, thanks to this, of course.
With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hochschild created a field within sociology looking at the social impact of emotion.
Tippett: This is, in my version, these are the last two paragraphs of the “The Love That Will Not Die” chapter.
He was formerly a leader of the Corrymeela community in Northern Ireland. It’s a work — like all works of spiritual genius — that speaks from the… The other book that I think is wonderful isâI love Pema Chodron and one of her classics isâ"When Things Fall Apart.". For all we know, when we get to the horizon, we are going to drop off the edge of the world. She sat with Krista for a rare, intimate conversation in 2015. Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org. Mary Oliver published over 25 books of poetry and prose, including Dream Work, A Thousand Mornings, and A Poetry Handbook. Banhart: And so it’s not like once I realized — “Oh, that one time I realized that things do fall apart, and I need to accept that everything is ever-changing — that one time, and then I never had to deal with that ever again” — [laughs] it doesn’t work that way.
That was kind of interesting, too, to look at what was marked up in the different copies, [laughs] which was probably a story of what was going on at that moment in my life when I read it last.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”, A little bit later on, she says, “The only time we ever know what’s really going on … the only time we ever know what’s really going on — is when the rug’s been pulled out and we can’t find anywhere to land. Their conversation speaks with special force to what it means to be alive and looking for meaning right now. In 2020, she created the first annual Great Radical Race Read.
But my version, it’s got all these bookmarks already in it. [laughs] Something we all have.
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You don’t really need to add that burden on yourself.
[laughs] And then all we know, all we hear — then, later, we see, this is a Sanskrit word, and it just means noble or awakened heart. Tippett: So maybe I’ll read a few of these parts from When Things Fall Apart.
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In this context, the outer level is the sense that something or somebody has harmed us, interfering with the harmony and peace we thought was ours. The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises in life. [laughs] You know? We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. And Venezuela — Venezuela, people have mass starvation and just the entire country is being held hostage, basically, by the military and a dictator. And so what do you do?
Banhart: Yeah. [laughs]. Thatâs a book I feel like I can pick up anywhere at any moment and read a paragraph and it will be redemptive. If we weren’t in the midst of a pandemic, it would be landing differently in me.
Craig holds a degree in environmental science from the University of Minnesota, and is the founder of the environmental nonprofit and record label Earthology. We’re talking through our favorite passages of When Things Fall Apart, a classic, spiritual work by Pema Chödrön.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is the State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Krista Tippett is the founder and CEO of The On Being Project, the host of On Being and Becoming Wise, and curator of the The Civil Conversations Project.Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and a National Humanities Medalist.She was the 2019 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University. This poem by Ada Limón tells the story of a person living with invisible chronic pain who finds unexpected fortitude from a girl dressed as a superhero.
They’re superpowers. Tippett: I love that. Its trajectory was cathartically changed the day he and his wife Connie woke up to find that their firstborn two-year-old son, Kaidin, had mysteriously died in his sleep. That’s it.
We jump into it. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.
I have gifted Pema Chödrönâs When Things Fall Apart. The only problem with this metaphor is that we leave all the others behind — our drunken brother, our schizophrenic sister, our tormented animals and friends. Kristin helped create everything from the concept to the ethos of this weekly offering. Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Krista spoke with musician/artist Devendra Banhart about Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart in a lively spiritual book club of sorts, recorded from their respective homes.
Banhart: Yeah, that does it.
Pema Chödrön, who was part of the Shambhala community when those incidents occurred, was named in that report as having dismissed a claim of sexual assault from a woman. And there’s also something really, really hopeful, in that when you initially read, “Things come together, and they fall apart,” there’s that sorrow — “No, I don’t want it to fall apart. A companion conversation to this week’s On Being episode — Krista catches up with Rev. In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beauty by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Tonglen — taking and sending — tonglen is really helpful. Tippett: Because it is happening, whether you want it to or not, whether you like it or not. And that helps me, and it feels like I’m doing something, as opposed to just taking in all this horror and sorrow and sorrow. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss." angel Kyodo williams is a Zen priest, activist, and teacher.
Some rascal has ruined it all. I hear it, and I’m, “OK, I can practice tonglen.” This is a way of somehow being proactive amidst the helplessness of so much suffering and horror around you. Tippett: [laughs] But the form here is different, too.
Copyright © 2020. [laughs] I’d say it’s a global thing, this global — I don’t know in what country are children taught that they can find strength in vulnerability; it’s OK not to know; it’s OK to cry — these things are just, whoa, I don’t know where they tell them that.
The music that has emerged ever since has spanned the human experience from the rawest grief to the fiercest hope.
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She’s the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. “As for the inner level of obstacle, perhaps nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion.
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