Pema Chodron: Smile at Fear - Living From The Heart

[gertmeister]

I listen to Pema on the way to work in the car. Thank you for bringing so much peace. I am but a work in progress and am learning that this is okay.

[vioricadoina]

Great!!! Thank you!!! I am grateful to life that you are here Pema! I am so conected with your teaching and with your humor!!!!

[vioricadoina]

Great!!! Thank you!!!



[mikmare44]

You are a great help to me in this world.

[Holistichealth100]

No part two?? :) She is speaking straight to my heart :)

[TadRapidly]

"be kind to yourself" has all the clues you need for an enlightenment episode. WHO is being kind and WHO is receiving the kindness? ;-)))

[anulay]

Wonderful clip.

"...when you turn toward your fear, when you move closer to it, you don't right away discover courage...what you discover is a kind of shaky, tender vulnerability." So true.

[bperez915]

i love her point she makes on the connection between strength and vulnerability. Thank you Pema!! Where can we see the rest of this talk?

[fallingstrawberry]

2:37 says it all.

[integrationcoach]

Where can I find the rest of this talk? Thank you. <3

[lindylou2004]

thank you for the loving you give and the wonderful teachings! I am so grateful for you.

[truckon51]

How fortunate we all are to have Pema in our lives, and for the availability of Utube to bring her to us this way! Thank you Pema Chodron, for giving us all these wonderful teachings! I am so grateful.

[zeppy13131]

What's wrong with all of you? What's with all the spirituality? Don't you realize we're supposed to be gossiping about movie stars, etc.?

Okay, just kidding... What a wonderful, refreshing experience to find such wisdom and humanity on a place like YouTube. Thank you, Pema, for helping us learn to accept and appreciate ourselves and others and to stop taking for granted our amazing time here on Earth.

[gaiautube]

May you be blessed Pema, with health, peace, joy and long life. I'm so grateful for your courageous loving example and your brilliant teaching in my life. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for teaching me to be present, aware and inspired to walk with wakefulness every moment of my life. May you be blessed, you are a gift, we send you much love.

[jigme911]

meditation is the key being honest with urself, thats where we all start from. i should start too. i am very lazy and have failed lots of times in my life, lost my confidence. its like i ran away from problems(reality)

compassion is the key. may all beings achieve happiness n free from sufferings

[luyendao]

@jigme911 I'm lazy too...i always practice when things aren't so good, otherwise i just do the very basics...it's hard to see the more subtle sufferings all the time.

[pbziegler]

Thanks for posting these wonderful teachings and for preserving Pema's wise teachings.

[silverskid]

Paying open minded attention to your own emotions-- especially those which we berate ourselves for feeling-- is already an act of kindness to ourselves. By just giving space to our fears, resentments, etc., we are holding them in awareness somewhat like a mother holds a crying baby in her arms. Even if the voices within are self-condemning, by letting them be and paying them attention we can discover a deeper layer of kindness that allows the self-condemnation to occur without pushing it away.

[janezmd]

@silverskid I really appreciate your phrasing, silverskid. I hadn't thought of paying attention to my emotions as an act of kindness to myself. Thanks.

[sooneaty]

@silverskid

how beautiful your words...`` like a mother holding a crying baby in her arms``.....

[TheAdeleLonestar]

@silverskid This was a beautiful comment. Thich Nhat Nahn coined the crying baby in the mother's arms phrase during his teachings on mindfulness and anger. It is lovely that you shared it here in relation to Ani Pema's iterations of Rinpoche's teaching. Thank you for your post here. It made my day brighter! <3

[baconfrosting]

@silverskid Well put, silverskid

[thezenway]

thank you for posting this! i find these teachings very helpful :) i'm looking forward to talk 2?