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By: Pema Chodron | Spiritual Critiques | Non-Judging

Pema Chodron | Spiritual Critiques | Non-Judging — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:28:33 +0000

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By: drgouri kumra

drgouri kumra — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:27:28 +0000

dear pema chodron
difficult people are a mirror image helping us to change.giving away ur loved ones makes us more bodhisattva. when one lives with difficult people who dont change and u beome tolerant is it not a useless tug of war. to fight over attachment by parents raises a lot of hostility,pls comment

By: Ellentrubody

Ellentrubody — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:31:32 +0000

Maybe it’s because I’m an academic myself, but I read this article/site as an attempt to publish a book and make some money. In that light, I think your biggest problem is the discussion of materialism. Pema’s primary audience (the people who buy the books you are critiquing) do not suffer from real poverty. They do, however, suffer from poverty mind. I find your critique on that point a bit like saying “Why doesn’t she tell all those hot people about blankets. Some people [not the ones here, but some] are cold.” It’s a very weak argument.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 May 2011 02:14:03 +0000

This Man has an PHD. Permanent Head Damage. That is how he get his so call higher self and divine calling, So much rubbish.

By: janice

janice — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:50:10 +0000

First, thank you for this insightful, well documented analysis. I feel divinely led to it. I have been struggling with” something” surrounding her wonderful teachings (and they are great for me as I practice tonglen, along with depp breathing and hatha yoga to release negative feels for people).My struggle startted with the Shambala style of meditation(hate to keep my eyes open) and the “no self” just appeared empty to this Christian-raised recovering (10 years) person. While so much of it seems good, there was someting inside of me – more than ego – that resisted. You’ve helped me by shaping these ideas. Nama

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:10:03 +0000

This article made my day!! I can’t stop laughing to see that this man spend so much of his time and energy to convince himself that he is right and whatever he believes is the ultimate truth. Well, this your career choice anyway. Keep going! Good luck! (at some point, when you are fed up with your own self seriousness and importance, sit down, calm down, sip a coffee and read Pema with an open mind. That might help. )

By: td

td — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:27:41 +0000

neither self nor no self. rest awake in natural great perfection- intrinsic buddha nature in all beings without exception
may all beings know happiness

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:37:01 +0000

I find it really sad, and the author has my complete compassion, that someone would spend so much time trying to convince others about his opinion.
Try things on, and if they do not fit…fine, just let them go. Pema Chodron repeats teachings that have been known for thousands of years, and each and everyone is welcome to try them on, rather than waste other people’s time in some kind of low key intellectual debate about nothing.
What the Buddha shared with others 2’500 years ago approx, can be tried on as well today.
Life is impemanent, things change constantly, in the very moment we are reading and writing these lines we are a step closer to our own death.
All humans have the same needs and the same feelings; what varies are the strategies we use to fullfill those needs.
It is beyond me why someone would waste his own,and other people’s time, trying to “prove” the Buddha wrong, when, all this person proves, is that he has not tried things on, yet limits himself to a purely intellectual/mental analysis of what can only be understood at a deeper level, at a level that goes beyond the thinking mind, just like, for example, the infinity of the universe which, to the thinking mind, is almost unacceptable.

By: Isabella

Isabella — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:10:26 +0000

I too just cannot begin to grasp the concept of “no-self”, but I’m not quite sure what point you are trying to make in this article.

Reading your critique, I couldn’t help but thing that the exact same examples (just with references to different writings) could be made about the Jewish and Christian traditions.

I have read “The Places That Scare You” and found it immensely helpful and addresses a major issue of our time – that we are all supposed to be happy and successful 100% of the time and we are failures if this is not the case.

I found the concept of accepting your feelings – that it is OK to feel angry or jealous or disappointed, to be a revelation. Because when we try to hide these feelings is when we act in damaging ways to ourselves and others through drinking, or compulsive eating, or violence.

I think if anyone were to ignore all of Pema Chodron’s work because they disagree with the “no-self” concept, then they would be missing out of a significant and important techniques for living in the modern world.

By: stonepig

stonepig — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:03:13 +0000

I hear EGO all over Mr Walegore’s writings and quite a few of the commenters. Everyone talks to God, everyone hears God, just not everyone knows how to listen. He finally had to have his own wife tell him to get a job…what? Did God ever tell him to support his family? I’ve known more enlightened 7-11 employees.
Find your way to the egoless state Mr W, either thru ACIM or Buddhism or your personal journeying, then your own words will have more punch. By writing from the ego, your work is defensive and sometimes, offensive. That is how we know your ego is deeply imbedded in your words. Also, as with Pema’s work being the teachings of her Masters, please give credit where credit is due for your own teachers.

Your mind is God. If you say, “I am God” in a deep prayer or meditative state, you will be ultimately pulled into the abiding energy that resonates through every living being, and you then will understand the concept of being One with it All, as in losing the ego-self to a Higher Consciousness. Your atoms will feel the flow into the fabrics, into the chair, the floor, the ground, to others, and the Connection will happen to you. Your heart will be Light, your words Golden, and your life filled with Happy.

As to the rest of the arguments about this and that…nothing else matters.