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Quotes from How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind — Pema Chödrön

born 1936 Canada

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The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it’s where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

But the Buddhist teachings are not only about removing the symptoms of suffering, they’re about actually removing the cause, or the root, of suffering.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don’t do either of those things.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

But there is that feeling. And there’s always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pema Chödrön (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.