Pema Chodron Steps Back, But Is With Us in the Spirit of Compassion - Connecting through Pain (but, no, you don't have to)

 Last May American Buddhist nun Pema Chodron delivered her last public talk at the Omega Institute. Currently she is on retreat in Colorado. But the Chodron Foundation reminds us that Pema is with us in spirit. 

We can connect with her through her videos (many of them available free on the Internet), books, lectures, and messaging at Buddhist centers around the world.

A core meme put out there by Pema has been how we human beings come together via adversity. Our own ordeals teach us compassion for the pain of others. 

Scientific researchers call that capacity for empathy the result of our mirror neurons. 

Renaissance poet John Donne put it this way: No man is an island. 

And, since its beginnings in 1875 by Jewish lawyers, law firm Paul Weiss has had the mission of social justice. Then, and as JSTOR Daily chronicles, well into the 20th century, Jews had been locked out of the WASP legal establishment. More recently the current Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp organized against antisemitism.

But has overwhelm made you anything but compassionate? That's where you are. And that's where you start any work you want to do on yourself. If that's what you want to do. Over the decades Pema has given us permission to be the wonderfully flawed human beings we are. That’s exactly why she gleefully shares her own myriad imperfections.

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