Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha” means that when you see that you’re grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“LIFE’S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on the floor… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
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… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. Perhaps… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
“When we realize that the path is the goal, there’s a sense of workability. Trungpa Rinpoche said, “Whatever occurs in the confused mind is… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron Copy Share
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share
