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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Awakened
Confidence
Strength
Wisdom
Heart
Mind
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Accessible

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The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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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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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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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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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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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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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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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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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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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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