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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

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
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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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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.
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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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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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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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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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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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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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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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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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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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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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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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