"Loving-kindness—maitri—toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri [metta in Pali] means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we already are. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest."
Pema Chodron from The Wisdom of No Escape
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we already are. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest."
Pema Chodron from The Wisdom of No Escape
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