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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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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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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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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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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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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
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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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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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