BY PEMA CHÖDRÖN| MAY 1, 2007We base our lives on seeking happiness and avoiding suffering, but the best thing we can do for ourselves—and for the planet—is to turn this whole way of thinking upside down. Pema Chödrön shows us Buddhism’s radical side.On a very basic level all beings think that they shoul...
The main thing about this practice and about all practice is that you're the only one who knows what is opening and what is closing down; you're the only one who knows. There's a slogan: “Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one." What it's saying is that one witness is everybody else giving you their feedback and opinions (which is ...
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions. And at bottom, those opinions are merely our efforts to escape the underlying uneasiness of being human, the uneasiness of feeling like we can’t get ground under our feet. So we hold on to our fixed ideas of this is how it is and dispar...
