“I became a Buddhist because I hated my husband,” Pema Chodron tells us with a laugh. I always like to hear how people came to the dharma and this YouTube video doesn’t disappoint. It wasn’t until she read about the “power of negativity”—now a chapter in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s classic The Myth of Freedom—that Ani Pema began to see a way out—or through—the wreckage of her life. Take a watch, she tells us why she eventually became a nun, too. The clip has been up for quite a while (30,000 views) but if you haven’t yet seen it (I hadn’t), it’s worth it.