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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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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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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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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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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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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.
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When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.
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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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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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