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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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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
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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 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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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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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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 not learned in safety.
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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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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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As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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We can put our whole heart into whatever we do but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. This kind of open-ended inquisitiveness captures the spirit of enthusiasm, or heroic perseverance.
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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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