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Pema Chödrön Quotes (1936-)
About Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, formerAcharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Chödrön teaches the traditional "Yarne" retreat at Gampo Abbey each winter and the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life in Berkeley each summer.
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“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
“Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.”
“The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.”
“This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.”
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.”
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.”
“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.”
“Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.”
“Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it’s where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.”
“We all need to be reminded and encouraged to relax with whatever arises and bring whatever we encounter to the path.”
“Through meditation, we’re able to see clearly what’s going on with our thoughts and emotions, and we can also let them go.”
“In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness.”
“Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, “Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?””
“When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.”
“The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.”
“This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don’t do either of those things.”
“When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.”
“From this point of view, the only time we ever know what’s really going on is when the rug’s been pulled out and we can’t find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep.”
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“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.”
Pema Chödrön on Present 2 quotes
“Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.”
About Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, formerAcharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Chödrön teaches the traditional "Yarne" retreat at Gampo Abbey each winter and the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life in Berkeley each summer.