Ode to Pema

I’ve been reading, listening to, studying Pema Chodron lately. One thing I love most about what she teaches is that there is no wrong. It just is. In meditation and life, we just show up in a state of present-ness for whatever exists for us—our feelings, thoughts, existence in the moment.

When we make our thoughts, moods or way of being (or someone else’s) “wrong” or “right”, that’s adding something. Every thought is a choice that can take us closer to realizing our inner state of Buddhahood or further into suffering. Not wrong, not right, just is.

Hmm…..

Or, rather, “Ommm…”