Pema Chodron
Pema Chodron
Pema Chödrönis an American, Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chodron has written several books and is the director of the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth14 July 1936
CountryUnited States of America
mean suffering firsts
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
running lines stories
We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
eye awakening blink
We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake
fall thinking together
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
heart missing ego
I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
running discovery meditation
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.
challenges feelings enough
Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
lonely warrior perspective
When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
joy obstacles resentment
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
kindness compassion compassion-for-others
Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
emotional long news
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
commitment heart unique
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to have a more flexible identity because we learn to accept ourselves and all of our human experience with more tenderness and openness. We learn to accept the present moment with an open heart. Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.
relate only-time
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.
struggle buddhism reality
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.