Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
PEMA CHODRONEach person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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