Pema Chödrön:
(born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, New York, 1936).
Buddhist nun and teacher in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and author.
She tries to make Eastern knowledge appealing to the Western world.
Pema Chödrön has given many lectures and meditation courses. She teaches at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia.
You are the sky. Everything else – is just the weather.
It’s not about changing ourselves. It’s about befriending who we already are.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It is a relationship between equals Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognise our shared humanity.
