Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation… — Pema Chodron 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
“The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“But the instruction that the awareness is only twenty-five percent really brings home the idea that it's not a concentration practice -… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“What I have realized through practicing is that practice isn't about beng the best horse or the good horse or the poor… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the… — Pema Chodron 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. The ground… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life,… — Pema Chodron 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
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
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter,… — 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
