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The more neurosis the more wisdom.

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
Neurosis
Wisdom

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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 only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
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What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. 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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If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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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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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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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!
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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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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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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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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
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