“Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“However, in this technique, because your eyes are open and because the gaze in not a tight gaze and because the whole… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. (...). One thing that is very helpful is to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — 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
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. Through… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The ground of not causing harm is mindfulness, a sense of clear seeing with respect and compassion for what it is we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In other words, you could endlessly try to have suffering cease by dealing with outer circumstances—and that’s usually what all of us… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything—not about winning or losing—but about ceasing to struggle and… — 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 Image
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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