Tag: pema chodron
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Mind the hooks…
Recently, I was reminded of a teaching by the renowned Buddhist teacher, Pema Chodron on the Buddhist concept of Shenpa. Shenpa is what she calls ‘the hooks’. These are the triggers in our lives that can send the mind into a spin. It’s almost as if they tap the ego on the shoulder and say,…
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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..’.…
