So from the emergency recording cave in my basement and his home studio in East Los Angeles, we read favorite passages to each other and reflect on what it is to be alive and looking for meaning right now. He’s described his copy of When Things Fall Apart as a literary version of an “in case of emergency break glass” box. So we set out to look for who else might be turning to this writing right now and quickly landed on the extraordinary musician and artist Devendra Banhart. So do others on our team, including our executive producer Liliana Maria Percy Ruíz and our art director Erin Colasacco. I’m not Buddhist, but I carry this book with me wherever I go.
She’s one of the greatest living teachers and writers in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. When Things Fall Apart is a tiny volume by Pema Chödrön.
Krista Tippett, host: We live in unusual times and this is an unusual show - a kind of “spiritual book club” edition of On Being. Shambhala Publications, which publishes When Things Fall Apart as well as many other books by Pema Chödrön, is a 50 year old independent family-owned publisher of books and is not affiliated with any other organization or meditation center. Pema Chödrön apologized shortly after that report was released, and in 2020 she announced her retirement as Shambhala teacher in a letter to the Shambhala community. 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. Editor’s note: In 2018, the Buddhist Project Sunshine released reports on sexual violence and misconduct in the Shambhala Buddhist community going as far back as 1983.
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