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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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Patience is not learned in safety.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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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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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
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Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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