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
Pema Chodron quotes about
- hope
- one-day
- fundamentals
- results
- only-time
- right-now
- unlimited-potential
- down-and
- becoming
- positive
- use
- wakes-you
- ebb-and-flow
- movement
- alive
- underestimate
- recognizing
- never-underestimate
- enlightenment
- way
- cheerful
- moments
- path
- path-to-enlightenment
- roots
- suffering
- matter
- present-moment
- butterfly
- ego
what-matters achieve caught
Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.
our-world feel-good down-and
We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
suffering noble impermanence
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
loneliness moving alive
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
loneliness compassion punishment
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
unlimited-potential down-and becoming
By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
results only-time right-now
The future is the result of what we do right now.
rain heart dark
We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.
sleep wake-up wakes-you
Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
life life-is glorious
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
pain knowing important
Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
moments present-moment
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
forget natural schemes
We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
add matter
Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters