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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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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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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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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.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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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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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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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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Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.
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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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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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