Tag: pema chodron

  • Against the grain

    Against the grain

    There is a Buddhist teacher named Pema Chodron who has famously declared that,  “to be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”. I remember when I read this for the time, a droll smirk formed on my face. Accompanying this smirk, my internal dialogue muttered the word, ‘Great..’.…