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
suffering causes happens
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
believe long suffering
The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.
hate people suffering
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 the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more
suffering causes majors
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,
suffering noble impermanence
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
roots suffering matter
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.
mind suffering alleviate
If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
suffering illusion
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
mistake self suffering
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.
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.
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.
believe suffering causes
It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
spiritual perspective suffering
It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
spiritual suffering has-beens
Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.