At some point, we know we can work with our mind. We’ve listened to the dharma and pondered it. If someone is continually angry with us—a family member, for example—it occurs to us that we have tools to work with this intelligently and kindly. But what about our parents or siblings? Although we may have a long way to go, t...
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 ...
