Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. - Pema Chödrön

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Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

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About Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, formerAcharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Chödrön teaches the traditional "Yarne" retreat at Gampo Abbey each winter and the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life in Berkeley each summer.

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Birth Name: Deirdre Blomfield-Brown
Alternative Names: Ane Pema Chodron
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