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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.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
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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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Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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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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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
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The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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