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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
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it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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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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If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
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