“The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face-to-face.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The concepts of problem and solution can keep us stuck in thinking that there is an enemy and a saint or a… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. — Pema Chodron 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
Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a… — 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
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
As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality... — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the… — Pema Chodron 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
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.… — 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
If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we’re stuck.” — 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
