The world needs another self-help book like it needs another Reality TV show. At least, that's what I would have said a year ago, right up until I found myself in need of something-"anything "-to pull me through the worst breakup of my life. What do you do when you want to be gracious, graceful, pragmatic, and filled with equanimity, but you're so hurt and angry you feel as if you could go around town ramming your car into random stationary objects without batting an eyelash? What do you do when your friends and family run out of platitudes and old, tired slogans like, ""Time heals all wounds,"" and ""It's better to have loved and lost..."?" (Slogans which, incidentally, make you want to scoop out your frontal lobe with a melon baller.) What do you do when the entirety of your social life consists of nightly trips to the grocery store for Haagen-Dazs(r) and Tylenol(r) PM, making the bulk of your human contact the now almost intimate act of handing the checkout person your Shopper's card?
This is the stuff that drives us to the very edge of annihilation. At least, it "feels" that way. It feels like a very real obliteration of the self. Let me tell you, it feels that way because "it is."
This breakdown can be the worst thing that's ever happened to you, or it can be the best thing for precisely this moment in your life.
"Buddha Breaking Up" is a modern-day spiritual guide for how to embrace dramatic, life-altering change and use it as a means of rediscovering the Self. It answers the age-old question, "What's next?" (We'll start with changing out of your bathrobe and combing your hair.)
Combining humor, pop culture, and Zen principles, Part I of "Buddha Breaking Up" explores the science of falling in love, provides useful tools for riding out the heartbreak-including how to handle social networking and other technology apparently designed for liberal applications of self-torment-and offers unique and practical techniques for moving through the lowest depths of the shattering. Part II, "The Bodhicitta of Breaking Up," illuminates methods for battling the wounded ego, dealing with anger, creating better relationships, and finally, loving and valuing yourself so you can reach a place of acceptance and grace in your new l

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