Pema Chödrön explains Maitri

[MaitriCathleen]

Thank you Pema Chodron, I so appreciate your teachings. I received the name Maitri from my teacher, Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, in Kerala in 1995 and had no idea what it was at the time. I have grown to love the name and its deep meaning and the teacher it has become for me. I aspire to live by Loving Kindness, it seems most especially hard for us to feel love and acceptance for ourselves.

[tremben]

As Pema related, from a meditation workshop in TX, one fella would say to himself just, "Thinking, good buddy."

mangalam!

KC:

[KarineRibbens]

When was this recorded??

She must be 75 now...

[anulay]

She really is inspiring to hear and to watch -- such wisdom and strength radiating from those eyes.

[alpal3971]

set yourself goals ? stages as you tag along,,,,, on how long to live, marrige,children,& if you live in a lucky DAC. NUCK. money..

[Aurelius27x]

Pali word Metta = Loving-kindness

[ravkes]

So important.

Thank you Pema.

[hinechristian]

: )

[kittymalone78]

<3 pema

[ipublica]

She forgot to name one pain - it's birth. A very fundamental pain, see the books by transpersonal psychiatrist Stan Grof, and by Otto Rank, the first psychoanalyst specialized on the trauma of birth.

[ipublica]

I say this in all my books, but never knew it's a Buddhist doctrine or idea. Be yourself your best friend, I call it. Be tolerant with yourself, be permissive with yourself, do not blame yourself, do not make yourself down or up, but just accept yourself.

[shamanizing]

@ipublica

well said Pierre, we come into this world kicking and screaming and sometimes, sometimes, we go out of this world kicking and screaming.

[authoryourlife]

@shamanizing Very lucid comment reply, for in accordance with C.G. Jung's teaching and also Tibetan teaching, correct me if I am wrong, it's okay to come kicking and screaming, but we don't need to go the same manner. The wisdom of life teaches us to build self-awareness of our pattern and to make peace with our shadow, our unresolved issues, our Karmic issues, to be able to go transformed, as for the sage, Karma is liberation, right? Jung died peacefully, Gandhii was shot, think about it.

[shamanizing]

@ authoryourlife

Hello Pierre

well said, also, if we are not afraid of dying, the skies the limit on what we can accomplish in this world

Every night and every morn

Some to misery are born.

Every morn and every night

Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,

Some are born to endless night.

William Blake (Auguries of Innocence)

[ipublica]

@shamanizing Thanks, my loving friend, you have true understanding of life, you are a beautiful person, you have reconciled me with the true teaching of the Buddha which I may not call Buddhism - because it's not an -ism. It simply is. It is truth. You embody that truth and you have helped to change my life. I had a real awakening today. I feel I am different, no more negative. I was so terribly negative. You have a great heart, my friend, and from your heart, light irradiates. I feel it.

[authoryourlife]

I am sorry I replied with my alter ego authoryourlife. I was not aware of it. Just had uploaded all those support videos. Cheers, Pierre

[KhenpoDarma]

Thank you for a wonderful video about Maitri. Speaking of which, from November 18th to the 23rd, 2009 Palden Dorje aka Ram Bonjom will be giving blessings in Gadhi Mai. He plans this appearance in order to protest the sacrificing of tens of thousands of animals before they take place on the 24th at the Gadhi Mai Festival near Nijgad in Bara District. Please participate in any way you can. May all beings be happy.

[anjibebe]

I've read several of her books and just found her today on Youtube. She has had a great influence on my life! I'm so grateful for teachers like her.

[CulturePeaceForever]

Noone is good or bad.buddhism teaches that nothing has inherent existence.But loving oneself in the way of Maitri,as Pema teaches is the best feeling one can have,& expands from oneself to others!

[LoriMiller1111]

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[renegadodk]

Listen to the Word of God men/women will confuse you deceive you and mislead you. That is why you want to always check this man and any other man out in the Word of God. God Created you for his Pleasure he Loves you all he wants from you is your Love in return. Let him know that you Love him get to know him follow him serve him it will make his day and he will make yours. God Bless You in Jesus Name Amen

[QueerLiberation]

I love her humor, it's poignant.

[peebeebaynut]

2:41 "yeah, sure". Where is she from, her accent did show though there.

[UnlimitedTimeOnly]

I think she grew up in New Jersey.

[yankeejat66]

Yeah, sure you seem to have understood the teaching peebeebaynut!

[michelleintech]

she is from Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia Canada

[Ares121288]

Maitri is sanskrit Metta is Pali its the same thing

[tempsperdu710]

what's the difference between maitri and metta?

telethon123 -- well-put, i totally agree.

[lezbiana8]

Unconditional friendship with oneself is a revolutionary concept, if we all accepted ourselves and all our emotions - there would be no violence and war in the world !!!

[ernstvon]

Pema has helped me too!

[DrJeanine]

Pema has been a very important teacher for me!

[j67123]

That's good to hear; I'm chucking everything to go and live at Gampo Abbey.^^

[nicolatwo]

She is the best.

[Me6is]

When you make someone the best, you also make someone bad.

[nicolatwo]

For Me6is: Why? How?

[TadRapidly]

Freedom is the very willingness to face whatever life has in store for us. The willingness is all you need. One could call it forbearance or courage also. A simple inner alignment with your life, with reality as it unfolds, nothing more. Its very simple.

[goldengreek25]

Where 'it' being friend with ourselves comes from is natural state from birth. The thing that messes it up are parents who not healthy psycholigically and emotionally.

[MaBu888]

Yes, fetuses in the mother's womb have a tendency, probably, at first to sustain uninterrupted substrate consciousness. Through practice, one can restaure this state or similar state of being in meditation. However, it also "naturally" occurs during car accidents, orgasms and right before death too. Therefore we should be patient and vivfy perceptions and go into deep states and remove doubts. BUT, substrate consciousness is just the first step, after that comes other samadhis and NIRVANA!

[aperezNWO]

Thanks for sharing. Is a daring duty to "translate" eastern teaching to the wordly western culture...

[HiAdrian]

I often found her to be leaning a bit to the gloomy perspective on life (she had a difficult one from what i've read), but this is a most excellent talk. I can very much relate.

[telethon123]

It's not gloomy. The first of the Four Noble Truths is that there is suffering, and the other three deal with said suffering. So a buddhist discussion will naturally center on suffering and its origins and remedies. The fact that she acknowledges and talks about our suffering is what makes her teachings more helpful and transformative than, for example, a Tony Robbins cheerleading session.

[laurasbotanicals]

@telethon123 Tony Robbins -'cheerleading session'... yeah, that can feel so fake and like you are lying to yourself when you don't feel you can cheer about pain.

[0synesthete0]

@telethon123 The Truth of Suffering, and The Truth of its Origins. The Truth of its Cessation, and The Truth of the Path that leads one thus - The Four Noble Truths.

[ogoboogo]

@telethon123 i dont have problem with suffering , but suffering that reduces your life to a room and your ability to escape suffering through practices recommended like meditation is something else. How can suffering then be considered something you can transcend if we do not fully know how much the body / mind is responsible for it and what we call reality ?

[shankaranamashiva]

Great clips! Thanks for posting such helpful videos.

[hornybodhisattva]

THANKS PEMA

YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY EARS

[bupunsu01]

thank's for the video.

-bupunsu-