Pema Chodron is such a lovely, down-to-earth teacher. Her message here on the spiritual friend is insightful and entertaining. I thought you might all enjoy it as I have.
Thank you sooooo much, Nichole, it was very timely message for me !!
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[QUOTE=Nichole;6112]Pema Chodron is such a lovely, down-to-earth teacher. Her message here on the spiritual friend is insightful and entertaining. I thought you might all enjoy it as I have.
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Pema’s books–two of many that she has written–[I]The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness[/I] and [I]The Wisdom of No Escape: The Path of Loving-Kindness[/I] are books that I am constantly picking up and rereading. This teaching, and the way Pema speaks it, has been transformative for me. Cultivating loving-kindness, as she speaks of it, has taken the teeth out of the critical voice that arises in my own mind. Of course, it is always a practice, and on some days there is less toothy mind-chatter than other days.
I was watching a beautiful DVD of Bhagavad Gita explained by Mansukh Patel. I will wrote down a couple of things that he said.
Krishna does not meassure somebody’s good or evil actions. He doesn’t pass judgement on anybody. Therefore you should not pass judgement on anybody. Why? Beacuse he is sitting in everybody’s heart. We should act nice to everyone equally.
He tells a story. Somebody is asking Lord to forgive him for all the sins that he committed. And a voice from heaven comes down and says: What sins?
The Lord does not pass judgements on our actions as such. Our actions in themselves carry the consequences. We create our future and present.
Mistakes are natural part of growing up. He advices to learn as quick as possible and not repeat same mistakes again and again. We should accept people’s mistakes.
We should carry on our actions with the understanding and vision that everyone deserves our love. Not just a saint but all living beings equally.
You can never be misleaded by love, by truth. People are misleaded by ignorance. Ignorance makes judgements. It tells us something is just a little bit not wright. Anykind of judgements is creating an emptiness of yourself.
His advice is: if you want to learn yoga start small and start in a place where you are sitting or standing. How? He tells an example of his mother who would always before she started eating took a little bit of everything from her plate and put it on his…
That was a great video, thank you!