Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

by Pema Chödrön

This dream is the direct immediacy of our experience.

MEDITATION PRACTICE is a formal way in which you can get used to lightening

up.

Sense the breath going out into big space and dissolving.

you’re simply relaxing outward with it.

regard the thoughts as bubbles and the labeling like touching them with a feather.

light touch—“thinking”—and they dissolve back into the space.

Just let it be.

loosen up and lighten up.

developing a nonjudgmental attitude.

Loving-kindness is unconditional friendliness.

our being.

four qualities of maitri that are cultivated when we meditate:

Steadfas...

body as well ...

Clear s...

less self-dec...

Experiencing our emotional distress.

dropping whatever story

leaning into the emotions an...

stay...

leave it as it is, without pr...

Attention to the present moment.

quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.

to seek security and avoid groundlessness,

Out there are all the planets and all the galaxies and vast space, but

would rather stay in that cocoon than step out int...

samsara—the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

The first noble truth says that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.

second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

addicted to

ME. We resist that we change and flow like the weather, that we have the same energy as all living things.

Resisting is what’s c...

third noble truth says that suffering ceases when we let go of trying to maintain...

This is what we practice in ...

When we stop resisting and let the weather simply flow through us, we can live our lives completely. It’s up to us.