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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.
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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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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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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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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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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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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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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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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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