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About Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron Pema Chodron (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, born 1936) is a fully ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. She is one of the most successful interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism for westerners, noted for her approachable and down-to-earth teaching style. Pema Chodron is a prolific author and has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America.

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Spiritual Quotes

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.

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