"For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness."
~Pema Chödrön
October 18, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/18/2014
October 17, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/17/2014
"In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath. "
~Pema Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/16/2014
"Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment-over and over again. "
~Pema Chodron
October 14, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/14/2014
"Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening. "
~Pema Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1013/2014
"Bodhichitta is our heart-our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings."
~Pema Chödrön
October 11, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/11/2014
"We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places. "
~Pema Chödrön
October 10, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspirations - 10/10/2014
"I take refuge in the Buddha," that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied. "
~Pema Chödrön
October 09, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/9/2014
"What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of
gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect
how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the
world. What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for
others, you're doing for yourself. "
~Pema
Chödrön
October 08, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/8/2014
"There are many changes in the weather of a day. "
~Pema
Chödrön
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