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
real space meditation
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.
heart mind heart-and-mind
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
people becoming capable
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
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...
teacher situation
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.
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.