Pema Chodron on Meditation

Jeffrey

From Lion's Roar

The meditative space is like the big sky— spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises.

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Shoshin

The meditative space is like the big sky— spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises.

Which reminds me of...
"Awareness is fundamentally non-conceptual before thinking splits experience into subject and object...It is empty and so can contain everything including thought...It is boundless...And amazingly it is intrinsically knowing"

Vastmind

^^^ Good video. When it got to what I AM, my brain started babbling questions, one after the other.

I know, I know... * face palm * .... hahaha.

Jeroen

I always like Pema Chödron, she has something very grounded and clear in the way she writes.

Shoshin

@Kerome said:
I always like Pema Chödron, she has something very grounded and clear in the way she writes.

Hmm should it be "she has something very groundless and clear in the way she writes"

Paradoxically I find her very grounded in groundlessness

Jeroen

@Shoshin said:
very grounded in groundlessness

That is not a bad way of putting it. What I meant is that she is very down to earth, speaking from her own experience, with a clear but undaunted view of the shadow sides of human nature. I admire that.