“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
One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.” — Pema Chödrön 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
“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
In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with… — Pema Chodron 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
“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that’s what we begin to undo. If we see… — 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
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having… — Pema Chodron 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
“Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch?… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. — Pema Chodron 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
