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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
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If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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