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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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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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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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