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
warrior training discomfort
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
reality bravery way
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality...
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
buddhism suffering trying
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
inspirational motivational attitude
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
curiosity welcome moments
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
pain moving emotional
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.
words-of-wisdom reason goodness
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
mind trying cool-down
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down.
revenge heart practice
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.
compassion making-friends
Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
resistance hell
Hell is just resistance to life.
wisdom alive share
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
change pain meditation
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.