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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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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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I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.
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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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