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The word for loving-kindness in Sanskrit is maitri. Maitri is also translated as unconditional friendliness. So each time you say to yourself “thinking,” you are cultivating that unconditional friendliness toward whatever arises in your mind.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
He put more emphasis on posture and taught people to put very light attention on their out-breath. Later he said that the out-breath was as close as you could come to simply resting the mind in its natural open state and still have an object to which to return.
Pema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
As Pema Chödrön puts it: “When the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
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The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it ... See more