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
spiritual self meditation-practice
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
freedom pain practice
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
distance practice way
One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.
moving compassion practice
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
inspiration practice lunch
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
pain thinking practice
It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
practice agitation facts
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
practice negativity aversion
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
practice burden
We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden
karma practice momentum
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
buddhist ignorance meditation-practice
What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
wisdom meditation-practice helpful
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
meditation-practice meditation-and-yoga trying
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
reality practice differences
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.