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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
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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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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
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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 painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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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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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
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