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The future is the result of what we do 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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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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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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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
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Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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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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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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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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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.
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