Pema Chodron Quotes - Page 16

• It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

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  Letting Go, Old Habits, Meditation

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• Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

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  One Day At A Time, Benefits, Earth

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.146, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

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  Acceptance, Simple, Confusion

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Rendirse, abandonar la posesividad y el desapego total son sinónimos de acumular méritos.

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  Letting Go, Merit, Possessiveness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

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  Weather, Shifting, Mood

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• La fría soledad nos permite mirar con honestidad y sin agresividad nuestra propia mente. Podemos abandonar gradualmente nuestros ideales de quién pensamos que deberíamos ser, o quién pensamos que queremos ser, o quién pensamos que los demás piensan que queremos o deberíamos ser. Renunciamos a ello y nos limitamos a mirar directamente, con compasión y humor, quiénes somos. Entonces la soledad no es una amenaza y el dolor, un castigo.

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  Soledad, Pensamiento, Compasión

  Pema Chodron (2000). "Cuando las cosas se desmoronan: Consejos del corazón para tiempos difíciles", p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

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  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

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  Suffering, Noble, Impermanence

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Palabras budistas como compasión y vacío no significan gran cosa hasta que empezamos a cultivar nuestra capacidad innata de simplemente estar ahí con el dolor, con el corazón abierto y la voluntad de no tratar instantáneamente de poner tierra de por medio. Por ejemplo, si lo que sentimos es rabia, solemos asumir que sólo hay dos formas de relacionarnos con ella. Una es culpar a los demás. Echarle toda la culpa a los demás. La otra alternativa es sentirnos culpables de nuestra rabia y culparnos a nosotros mismos.

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  Budista, Dolor, Corazón

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• We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

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  Practice, Burden

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chodron, billmoyers.com. December 24, 1996.

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• Just where you are-that's the place to start!

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  Dónde estás

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• El trabajo de la vida es despertar, dejar que las cosas que entran en tu vida te despierten en lugar de dormirte.

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  Dormir, despertarse

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• Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

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  Essence, Realization

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• If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

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  Religious, Peace, Heart

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• Al menos una vez al año, imagino que estoy a punto de morir. Miro hacia atrás con toda la sinceridad que puedo y presto toda mi atención a las cosas que desearía que no hubieran ocurrido. Al reconocer estos errores con honestidad, pero sin autorrecriminarme, intento alegrarme de la sabiduría innata que me permite ver con tanta valentía, y siento compasión por haber metido la pata con tanta frecuencia. Entonces puedo seguir adelante. El futuro está abierto de par en par, y lo que haga con él depende de mí.

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  Error, Compasión, Yo

  Pema Chodron (2007). "No hay tiempo que perder: una guía oportuna de la vía del Bodhisattva", p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. 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.

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  Rain, Heart, Dark

  "The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chodron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

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  Practice, Negativity, Aversion

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

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  Odio, Gente, Sufrimiento

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

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• If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

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  Mind, Suffering, Alleviate

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• Mi experiencia con el perdón es que llega espontáneamente en un momento determinado y tratar de forzarlo no es realmente perdón. Es filosofía budista o algo de jerga espiritual que estás tratando de cumplir pero sólo lo estás usando contra ti mismo como una razón por la que no estás bien.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Philosophy

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• We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

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  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

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  Forget, Natural, Schemes

  Pema Chodron (2000). "Cuando las cosas se desmoronan: Consejos del corazón para tiempos difíciles", p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

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  World, Patterns, Resolution

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Es posible avanzar por el drama de nuestras vidas sin creer tan fervientemente en el personaje que interpretamos.

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  Drama, Creer, Conmover

  Pema Chodron (2002). "Los lugares que te asustan: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times", p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

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  Growing Up, Grows, Relate

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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