Pema Chödrön: Outside Your Comfort Zone 

Pema Chodron is eighty-seven years old as of this summer.

Love Pema. Long Live Chodron. Kind and wise.

So beautiful, so comforting, wise, simple yet profound. I hope all who are watching here experience peace and wholeness and attain self-acceptance. I hope you do not need to experience the trauma zone too frequently. Love to all.

Love the fact she is using modern day psychology for her teachings...

I love, adore and appreciate Pema's teaching style greatly - with clarity, insight and humor profound wisdom teachings and tools are shared. What a blessing this precious human being is, and that we get to have access via The Web.

Wow, that simple example just blew me away! I Thank you 🙌

It is so very different publicity from US compared to entertainment. Buddhist view is helpful and causes progress with dukkha. 🙏

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thanks for the sharing the video 🫶

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I really like the video, but I felt like maybe it just got cut off before it could talk about what happens when you step into excessive risk zone and how that impacts the amount of time you have to spend in the comfort zone afterward or other consequences there’s anyone else have a video that they recommend the address of these things?

But most raindrops, when they get near the ocean, they stop and they say: ‘Oh no!’, and they try to go back to the cloud. This is what creates hailstorms. And they enter hail-realms of inability to commit to unite with the ocean. And they would rather tell stories about how close they got to that ocean but remain in some cloud of unknowing that confuses itself with the Real. But a time comes when the Ocean of Consciousness can no longer be resisted, because the gravity of the hailstone has accumulated too much suffering, too much frozenness in its past traumas, too much fear, too much illusory entity-hood, too much history, too much sorrow, too much karma to bear. But no matter how large the hailstone or how small, or how liquefied the drop, all dissolve the same, all are one, there is no difference. No matter what happened in that biographical journey of the illusory ego, all are the same, one, infinite ocean of presence, of intelligence, of bliss. And the ocean is an infinite ocean of laughter, of joy, at the realization of the illusion. And there is no mind left that would wish for anything other than this eternal liberation. And because all these raindrops and hailstones have emerged from the same ocean in the first place they carry that ocean within, they have never been anything BUT that ocean. We are always that which we are seeking, or we are fleeing from, or we are thinking about committing to. But all of those illusory attitudes toward the Real, all take place ignorantly WITHIN the Real because there is nothing BUT the Real. The ocean may extend itself as fog, as clouds, as storms, as every possible permutation of form and energy and activity; it may even take the apparent form of solid ground. But all of it ultimately is that same oceanic awareness, that same infinite, formless, intelligent, blissful Self, regardless of whatever conditions arise within its plane of awareness. All that arises, all that disappears, constitute the same light, the same mind-nature, the same infinite intelligence. And there is no change, there is no multiplicity, there are no persons, bodies, events, only the immutable Presence that contains all, but is untouched, unaffected, undisturbed. And from that perspective of the ocean we recognize that even the traumatic experiences are gifts. They are even the greatest gifts, for they show us our own power of self-overcoming, our power of awakening, illumination, self-liberation, the ecstasy of that eternal instant when you realize that YOU are THAT. And this internal instant is always now...

Had to laugh as I just completed a 10 day vipassana and was like "Right, time to cancel my netflix" which I knew from the start was just an escape (as much as I freakin' love Avatar the last airbender and all its' spiritual teachings!) ....and FRIENDS... hahaha

No offense, honestly, but getting out of your comfort zone is something we all know by 7th grade... but a respected elder puts on a costume and everyone acts like it's a profundity that humanity has never encountered before... this entire lecture is a comfort zone for the people reacting that way to something they've known since adolescence... irony.