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Pema Chödrön

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Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Quick Facts About Pema Chödrön

Notable works: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

About Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and was principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She retired in 2020.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Pema Chödrön · Page 23

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more…

Aspiration

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“WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune;…

Blessings

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The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.…

Again and again

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Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Emotional

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“Just as the Buddha taught, it’s important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When…

Aggression

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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday…

Complaints

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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of…

Awake

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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we…

Choice

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The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are…

Celebrate

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When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending…

Causes

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We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that…

Accomplishing anything

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“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever…

Friendship

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The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe…

Believe

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We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

Giving

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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Hope

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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

Chaos

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Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We…

Angry

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“it’s good to express our gratitude to others. It’s helpful to express our appreciation of others. But if we do that with…

Gratitude

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“Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to teach us what we need to…

Serenity

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“Without loving-kindness, staying in pain is just warfare.”

Pain

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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

Calm

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We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on…

Action

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In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with…

Ideals

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To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

Attraction

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“Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person…

Buddhism

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