Pema Chodron Quotes About Buddhism

Quotes about: Buddhism

• If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Inspirational Love, Peace

• The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

• 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.

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  Disappointment, Buddhism, Irritation

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

• This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Freedom, Moving

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

• Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

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  Fall, Healing, Buddhism

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

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  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

• Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

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  Struggle, Buddhism, Reality

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

• Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

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  Work, Buddhism, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

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  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Squares, Suffering

• Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

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  Buddhism, Acceptance, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

• Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

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  Moving, Ignorance, Passion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

• We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, People

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.76, 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Country, Strong, Buddhism

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

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  Buddhism, Culture, Adapted

• Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Empowering, Getting What You Want

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.123, Shambhala Publications

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