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Pema Chodron Quotes - Page 18

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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.

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.

Heart, Dark, Thinking

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Running, Pain, Keys

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Heart, Trying, Way

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Neurosis

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, Moving, Alive

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Unlimited Potential, Down And, Becoming

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Freedom, Doors, Inspire

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.183, Shambhala Publications

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Freedom, Pain, Practice

Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

Ebb And Flow, Movement, Alive

Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

Benefits, World, Blocked

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.125, Shambhala Publications

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Weather

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Moving, Giving, Meditation

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Running, Trying, Answers

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

Doing For Others

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Reality, Space, Feelings

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

Warrior, Training, Wake Up

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Knowing, Faces, Explorers

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Country, Strong, Buddhism

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Buddhism, Culture, Adapted

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

Ego, Scare, Inquiry

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

Frustration, Might, Realizing

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

Buddhist, Goes On, Belief

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

Struggle, Passion, Pride

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Neurosis, Made, Materials

Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

Trying, Who We Are, Reconnecting

Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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