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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.
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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
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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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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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