Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, acharya and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.Chodron has written s...
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chodron
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we fee Pema Chodron
…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we fee
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. Pema Chodron
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Pema Chodron
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness. Pema Chodron
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Pema Chodron
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you n Pema Chodron
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you n
Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look. Pema Chodron
Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. Pema Chodron
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior.
When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart. Pema Chodron
When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. Pema Chodron
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
