Pema Chödrön - Versionsgeschichte

Wiki: "These days, many of us feel anxiety and gloom when we look around or read the news. This is natural and understandable, but at the same time it's important to find ways to cultivate optimism. As it s

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"These days, many of us feel anxiety and gloom when we look around or read the news. This is natural and understandable, but at the same time it's important to find ways to cultivate optimism. As it s

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	In surrendering the fantasy of arrival, I found myself more present to the journey—to the texture of this moment, with all its imperfection and wonder.		In surrendering the fantasy of arrival, I found myself more present to the journey—to the texture of this moment, with all its imperfection and wonder.
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		+	=="These days, many of us feel anxiety and gloom when we look around ==
		+	or read the news. This is natural and understandable, but at the same time it's important to find ways to cultivate optimism. As it says in an aspiration that I recite often, "in relating to the future of humanity, I will be optimistic and courageous." Without having some sense of optimism, it's easy to fall into some passive or defeatist attitude. Why try to do anything to improve the future if it's hopeless anyway? But according to the teachings on karma, the future is unwritten. What we do now does matter, not just to ourselves but to everyone who is part of this interconnection that we call Mother Earth. Even smiling at someone once can have tremendous ripple effect that goes out and out- who knows how far? If this is the case, then think of how much we can affect the world by enthusiastically training in opening our hearts and minds, day after day."
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		+	From Pema's book
		+	"Welcoming the Unwelcome" pg. 144
		+	https://pemachodronfoundation.org

Wiki: /* Stop Hiding from Yourself */ December 25, 2024 The Awakened Heart Bodhichitta, the awakened heart, begins with the wish to be free from whatever gets in the way of our helping others. We long to

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Stop Hiding from Yourself: December 25, 2024 The Awakened Heart Bodhichitta, the awakened heart, begins with the wish to be free from whatever gets in the way of our helping others. We long to

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		+	==The Awakened Heart==
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		+	Bodhichitta, the awakened heart, begins with the wish to be free from whatever gets in the way of our helping others. We long to be free from the confused thoughts and habitual patterns that cover up our basic goodness, so that we can be less reactive, less fearful, and less stuck in our old ways. We understand that to whatever degree we can get beyond our neuroses and habits, we can be more available for those teenagers, for our family members, for our larger community, or for the strangers we meet. We may still be going through strong feelings and reactions on the inside, but if we know how to work with these emotions without falling into our usual ruts, then we can be right there for others. And even if there’s nothing dramatic we can do to help, other people will feel our support, which actually helps a lot.
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		+	Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
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	I read it first in fragments, unable to absorb more than whispers of wisdom through the static of my pain. Dog-eared pages. Tear-stained margins. Words underlined so fiercely the pen nearly tore through paper. I carried it like a talisman, this small book with its impossible invitation—to move toward suffering rather than away, to discover within collapse the seeds of an awakening I couldn't yet imagine.		I read it first in fragments, unable to absorb more than whispers of wisdom through the static of my pain. Dog-eared pages. Tear-stained margins. Words underlined so fiercely the pen nearly tore through paper. I carried it like a talisman, this small book with its impossible invitation—to move toward suffering rather than away, to discover within collapse the seeds of an awakening I couldn't yet imagine.
	What follows isn't simply what I learned from Chödrön's teachings, but how they slowly, imperceptibly became the soil from which something new could grow in the devastated landscape of my heart. How a Buddhist nun I've never met somehow knew exactly what my shattered spirit needed to hear in its darkest hour. How wisdom, offered with both unflinching honesty and boundless compassion, can become the most tender of medicines for what we believe might kill us.		What follows isn't simply what I learned from Chödrön's teachings, but how they slowly, imperceptibly became the soil from which something new could grow in the devastated landscape of my heart. How a Buddhist nun I've never met somehow knew exactly what my shattered spirit needed to hear in its darkest hour. How wisdom, offered with both unflinching honesty and boundless compassion, can become the most tender of medicines for what we believe might kill us.
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	1. The Wisdom of No Escape		1. The Wisdom of No Escape
	The first teaching that undid me was perhaps the simplest: stop running. For decades, I had perfected the art of escape—through achievement, through busyness, through carefully constructed identities, through relationships that served as distractions. Chödrön gently but firmly pulled away these veils, showing me how my desperate attempts to avoid discomfort were actually the source of my deepest suffering.		The first teaching that undid me was perhaps the simplest: stop running. For decades, I had perfected the art of escape—through achievement, through busyness, through carefully constructed identities, through relationships that served as distractions. Chödrön gently but firmly pulled away these veils, showing me how my desperate attempts to avoid discomfort were actually the source of my deepest suffering.
	"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves," she writes. "The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated."		"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves," she writes. "The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated."
	In the raw aftermath of loss, these words felt both impossible and inevitable. What if, instead of frantically seeking the exit door from pain, I could simply sit with it? What if my vulnerability, rather than my armor, held the key to healing?		In the raw aftermath of loss, these words felt both impossible and inevitable. What if, instead of frantically seeking the exit door from pain, I could simply sit with it? What if my vulnerability, rather than my armor, held the key to healing?
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	2. Staying with the Broken Heart		2. Staying with the Broken Heart
	"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." This passage, underlined three times in my copy, became my meditation through sleepless nights when waves of grief threatened to drown me.		"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." This passage, underlined three times in my copy, became my meditation through sleepless nights when waves of grief threatened to drown me.
	Through her words, I began to understand that heartbreak itself could be a sacred teacher if I could stay present to its teachings rather than frantically trying to stitch myself back together.		Through her words, I began to understand that heartbreak itself could be a sacred teacher if I could stay present to its teachings rather than frantically trying to stitch myself back together.
	I learned to ask different questions: not "How can I feel better?" but "What is this teaching me about impermanence, about love, about the human condition we all share?" In the tenderest moments of surrender, I glimpsed what she meant by "the soft spot"—that vulnerable core that pain exposes and that, paradoxically, connects us to all beings who suffer.		I learned to ask different questions: not "How can I feel better?" but "What is this teaching me about impermanence, about love, about the human condition we all share?" In the tenderest moments of surrender, I glimpsed what she meant by "the soft spot"—that vulnerable core that pain exposes and that, paradoxically, connects us to all beings who suffer.
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	3. The Sacred Pause		3. The Sacred Pause
	Perhaps no teaching transformed my daily experience more profoundly than Chödrön's guidance around pausing. In moments when emotion threatens to overwhelm, when habitual reactions rise like storm clouds, the simple act of pausing creates space for something new to emerge.		Perhaps no teaching transformed my daily experience more profoundly than Chödrön's guidance around pausing. In moments when emotion threatens to overwhelm, when habitual reactions rise like storm clouds, the simple act of pausing creates space for something new to emerge.

Wiki: /* Stop Hiding from Yourself */ In the winter of my undoing, when grief had hollowed me to a husk and anxiety circled like hungry wolves at the edge of my consciousness, I found Pema Chödrön's "When T

2025-05-11T19:36:17Z

Stop Hiding from Yourself: In the winter of my undoing, when grief had hollowed me to a husk and anxiety circled like hungry wolves at the edge of my consciousness, I found Pema Chödrön's "When T

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		+	In the winter of my undoing, when grief had hollowed me to a husk and anxiety circled like hungry wolves at the edge of my consciousness, I found Pema Chödrön's "When Things Fall Apart" pressed into my hands by a friend who knew. Not what to say—because what words suffice when your life has shattered?—but what might serve as a lantern in that darkness.
		+	I read it first in fragments, unable to absorb more than whispers of wisdom through the static of my pain. Dog-eared pages. Tear-stained margins. Words underlined so fiercely the pen nearly tore through paper. I carried it like a talisman, this small book with its impossible invitation—to move toward suffering rather than away, to discover within collapse the seeds of an awakening I couldn't yet imagine.
		+	What follows isn't simply what I learned from Chödrön's teachings, but how they slowly, imperceptibly became the soil from which something new could grow in the devastated landscape of my heart. How a Buddhist nun I've never met somehow knew exactly what my shattered spirit needed to hear in its darkest hour. How wisdom, offered with both unflinching honesty and boundless compassion, can become the most tender of medicines for what we believe might kill us.
		+	1. The Wisdom of No Escape
		+	The first teaching that undid me was perhaps the simplest: stop running. For decades, I had perfected the art of escape—through achievement, through busyness, through carefully constructed identities, through relationships that served as distractions. Chödrön gently but firmly pulled away these veils, showing me how my desperate attempts to avoid discomfort were actually the source of my deepest suffering.
		+	"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves," she writes. "The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated."
		+	In the raw aftermath of loss, these words felt both impossible and inevitable. What if, instead of frantically seeking the exit door from pain, I could simply sit with it? What if my vulnerability, rather than my armor, held the key to healing?
		+	2. Staying with the Broken Heart
		+	"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." This passage, underlined three times in my copy, became my meditation through sleepless nights when waves of grief threatened to drown me.
		+	Through her words, I began to understand that heartbreak itself could be a sacred teacher if I could stay present to its teachings rather than frantically trying to stitch myself back together.
		+	I learned to ask different questions: not "How can I feel better?" but "What is this teaching me about impermanence, about love, about the human condition we all share?" In the tenderest moments of surrender, I glimpsed what she meant by "the soft spot"—that vulnerable core that pain exposes and that, paradoxically, connects us to all beings who suffer.
		+	3. The Sacred Pause
		+	Perhaps no teaching transformed my daily experience more profoundly than Chödrön's guidance around pausing. In moments when emotion threatens to overwhelm, when habitual reactions rise like storm clouds, the simple act of pausing creates space for something new to emerge.
		+	"This very moment is the perfect teacher," she reminds us. The pause became my practice—the breath between stimulus and response where freedom lives.
		+	I began to notice how automatically I moved away from discomfort, how quickly I reached for distraction. The pause allowed me to witness these movements with compassion rather than judgment. Sometimes just three conscious breaths were enough to interrupt patterns that had controlled me for decades.
		+	4. The Path Is the Goal
		+	"We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart." This teaching, perhaps more than any other, revolutionized my understanding of what healing actually means.
		+	I had been living as though happiness were a destination I could reach if I just solved enough problems, accumulated enough wisdom, or purified myself of enough flaws. Chödrön's teaching revealed the exhaustion inherent in this approach and offered instead a radical acceptance of life's fundamental uncertainty.
		+	The path itself—with all its stumbles, wrong turns, and moments of clarity—is the point. There is no graduation day from being human, no final resolution to life's essential vulnerability. This understanding brought not despair but a profound relief. I could stop striving for some imagined state of perfection and instead embrace the messy, beautiful process of awakening that unfolds breath by breath.
		+	In surrendering the fantasy of arrival, I found myself more present to the journey—to the texture of this moment, with all its imperfection and wonder.
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Wiki: /* Stop Hiding from Yourself */ Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you h

2024-12-16T14:33:37Z

Stop Hiding from Yourself: Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you h

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	Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. So when you realize that you’re talking to yourself, label it “thinking” and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. Then you’ll be changing old stuck patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.		Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. So when you realize that you’re talking to yourself, label it “thinking” and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. Then you’ll be changing old stuck patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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	Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living		Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
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		+	I found this book during a season when everything felt fragile – like one more gust of wind would topple the teetering house of cards I called my life. I read it in the quiet moments between tears, in the chaotic hum of days where nothing made sense, and in the stillness of nights when grief sat beside me like an uninvited guest. Here’s what Chödrön whispered to my soul:
		+	1. Falling Apart is an Invitation
		+	We spend so much of our lives clutching at what we’re afraid to lose. Chödrön teaches that falling apart isn’t the end – it’s the beginning. Like the Japanese art of kintsugi, where broken pottery is mended with gold, she shows how our fractures make us beautiful. "Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us," she writes. These words gave me permission to stop holding it all together and let myself fall – because falling is how we learn to rise.
		+	2. Embrace the Groundlessness
		+	There’s a myth we all cling to: that stability is the goal, that certainty is the prize. Chödrön flips this on its head. She invites us to embrace the “groundlessness” of life – the ever-shifting, unpredictable nature of existence. For someone who’s spent their life seeking anchors, this was both terrifying and liberating. She writes, “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” This truth still makes my heart race, but now it’s a thrill, not a fear.
		+	3. Pain is the Doorway
		+	We spend so much energy running from pain, numbing it, avoiding it. But Chödrön tenderly insists that pain is our greatest teacher. She doesn’t romanticize suffering; she reframes it as the doorway to transformation. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know,” she writes. These words became a mantra as I learned to sit with my pain instead of fleeing from it, to listen to what it was trying to teach me.
		+	4. The Power of the Pause
		+	There’s a sacred moment between stimulus and response – a moment Chödrön calls the "pause." It’s in this space that we find freedom. She taught me to pause when anger flared, when fear gripped, when despair threatened to swallow me whole. In that pause, I learned to breathe, to choose, to soften. It’s a practice I’m still learning, but it’s changing everything.
		+	5. The Wisdom of No Escape
		+	One of the book’s most profound lessons is the idea that there’s no escape from life – and that’s okay. Chödrön writes, “The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” This was a call to stop fighting reality, to stop trying to force my life into a mold it wasn’t meant to fit. She invites us to stay present, even when it hurts, because the present moment is where healing begins.
		+	6. Compassion for the Self
		+	Chödrön’s words are a salve for the self-critical soul. She reminds us that we’re all stumbling our way through life, doing the best we can with the tools we have. “Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.” I’ve taped these words to my mirror, a daily reminder to meet myself with the same tenderness I offer others.
		+	7. The Joy of Letting Go
		+	The most surprising gift this book gave me was joy – not in the way we usually think of it, but a quiet, steady joy that comes from letting go. Letting go of perfection. Letting go of control. Letting go of the need for life to be anything other than what it is. In that letting go, I found a peace I didn’t know I was searching for.
		+	I’ve rewritten this review countless times because it’s hard to capture what When Things Fall Apart has meant to me. This book didn’t just help me survive my storm; it taught me to dance in the rain. It showed me that in the breaking, we’re made whole, and in the falling, we find flight.
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Wiki: Stop Hiding from Yourself Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide o

2024-02-07T16:57:10Z

Stop Hiding from Yourself Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide o

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		+	Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. So when you realize that you’re talking to yourself, label it “thinking” and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. Then you’ll be changing old stuck patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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Wiki: Experiment If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it’s because we have been cu

2024-01-22T18:39:05Z

Experiment If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it’s because we have been cu

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		+	If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it’s because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time. But as my teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche used to say, we can approach our lives as an experiment. In the next moment, in the next hour, we could choose to stop, to slow down, to be still for a few seconds. We could experiment with interrupting the usual chain reaction and not spin off in the usual way. We don’t need to blame someone else, and we don’t need to blame ourselves. When we’re in a tight spot, we can experiment with not strengthening the aggression habit and see what happens.
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		+	Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
		+	by Pema Chödrön,
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Wiki: /* Illusion of Permanence */ Pëma Chodron: “We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is a

2023-10-16T18:50:08Z

Illusion of Permanence: Pëma Chodron: “We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is a

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		+	Pëma Chodron:
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		+	“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience. Doing this is setting ourselves up for failure, because sooner or later, we’re going to have an experience we can’t control: our house is going to burn down, someone we love is going to die, we’re going to find out we have cancer, a brick is going to fall out of the sky and hit us on the head, somebody’s going to spill tomato juice all over our white suit, or we’re going to arrive at our favorite restaurant and discover that no one ordered produce and seven hundred people are coming for lunch.”
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		+	The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That’s what we’re going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.
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		+	Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It’s a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs. To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.
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		+	Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

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Wiki: "Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle, we start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. This can be a painful experience. I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselve

2023-09-14T15:49:41Z

"Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle, we start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. This can be a painful experience. I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselve

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		+	"Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle, we start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. This can be a painful experience. I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgemental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy."
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		+	From Pema's book Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change
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Wiki: Illusion of Permanence Holding on to the feeling of permanence also happens with our emotional states. Whether we feel good or bad, happy or sad, optimistic or pessimistic, we tend to forget that fee

2023-08-20T15:42:41Z

Illusion of Permanence Holding on to the feeling of permanence also happens with our emotional states. Whether we feel good or bad, happy or sad, optimistic or pessimistic, we tend to forget that fee

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	For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundlessness that we try to escape. But if we learn to relax with uncertainty and insecurity, then death is a support for joy.		For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundlessness that we try to escape. But if we learn to relax with uncertainty and insecurity, then death is a support for joy.

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		+	==Illusion of Permanence==
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		+	Holding on to the feeling of permanence also happens with our emotional states. Whether we feel good or bad, happy or sad, optimistic or pessimistic, we tend to forget that feelings are fleeting. It’s as if there’s a mechanism that blocks us from remembering everything is always in flux. Our current state of anxiety or elation just seems to be how our life is. When we’re happy, we become disappointed when our good feeling fades away; when we’re unhappy, we feel stuck in our unpleasant emotions. So whether we feel good or bad, our illusion of permanence leads to problems.
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		+	How We Live Is How We Die
		+	by Pema Chödrön,
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Wiki: The Ultimate Unknown For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundle

2022-12-23T15:25:52Z

The Ultimate Unknown For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundle

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		+	==The Ultimate Unknown==
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		+	For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundlessness that we try to escape. But if we learn to relax with uncertainty and insecurity, then death is a support for joy.
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		+	Excerpted from:
		+	Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action
		+	by Pema Chödrön,
		+	page 45
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