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
running compassion self
Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.
moments ifs flexible
If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
essence path discomfort
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?
life determination commitment
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
moving comfort uncharted
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
compassion making-friends
Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
compassion roots oneself
The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.
live-in-the-moment enlightenment moments
If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
sleep our-lives allowing
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
words-of-wisdom reason goodness
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
views joy ego
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.
teacher struggle night
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
peace humanity facts
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
buddhist reality two
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.