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Pema Chödrön on self acceptance

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Pema Chödrön: Explaining Maitri

Pema Chödrön explains maitri: reveals the time-tested Buddhist antidote to suffering-and shows how to apply it in your own life.

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2008
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How Meditation Helps in Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty.

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Pema Chödrön
2009
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWithout giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who’s right and who’s wrong.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe 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.

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