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
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Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.
believe thinking our-world
By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
real who-we-are renounce
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
people
Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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.