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Archive for December, 2017
News from The Pema Chödrön Foundation
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Dear friends,
It has been a wonderful year for Pema and the Pema Chödrön Foundation! We are delighted to bring you up to date on Pema’s activities, and the activities of The Foundation. Thank you so very much for your support. With your help, we aspire to do even more in 2018!
Please consider donating again during your yearend giving.
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| Pema completed her year in retreat with teachings on the Bardo, or the intermediate state between this life and the next, at Omega Institute in September. She has recently entered a 100-day retreat, and will soon head to Gampo Abbey for her annual winter teachings.
Pema will be teaching again next year at Omega, May 18-20, 2018. Registration has opened here and fills up quickly!
Please request that you be placed on the cancellation list if there are no openings. Omega Institute does a great job of contacting people when space opens up. |
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| Supporting at-risk communities |
| Pema is committed to helping at-risk populations and is eager to do as much as she can to support them. The Pema Chödrön Foundation has provided grants to Homeboy Industries, Prison Mindfulness Institute, iGrow Chicago and Surmang Foundation, to name a few. Please visit our website to learn more and consider making a contribution here. |
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| It is Pema’s deepest wish that Buddhist nuns are able to receive the full training and education required to fully realize the wisdom of the tradition and to carry it into the future. It is vital that these nuns receive the same education and support as monks, and Pema is making this happen! Any donation that you could give to support Pema’s nuns projects would be appreciated tremendously. Read more about the nuns we support:
Tsoknyi Gechak Ling Nunnery
Karma Drubdey Nunnery in Bhutan
Monastic College of Surmang Dutsi Til
Sher Gompa
Good news! A second group of Nuns will be starting their intensive 3-year retreat at Sher Gompa high in the Annapurna mountains of Nepal. Thank you to all who have supported them! |
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| The Book Initiative is continuing the grow! The PCF has sent thousands of Pema’s books at no cost to prisons, hospitals, counseling centers, homeless shelters, and individuals. Thanks to a grant from Donaldson Trust, and the support of many of you who believe in this project, our outreach has grown beyond our wildest dreams. Please consider supporting this wonderful program here. |
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Planned Giving
As you prepare your will or trust, please consider including the Pema Chödrön Foundation. Your planned generosity will have a great impact for years to come, and insure that Pema’s work continues well into the future. Please contact Tim@PemaChodronFoundation.org for more information. |
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| Pema Chodron Foundation Bookstore |
| When you purchase Pema’s books, CD’s and DVD’s from our on-line bookstore, all proceeds go directly towards supporting Pema’s work. Shipping is free inside the US!
The Pema Chödrön Foundation Bookstore |
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The Essential Pema is a topical guide
through all of Pema’s teachings,
downloadable and free. |
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Pema and The Board of The Pema Chödrön Foundation extend our deepest thanks for all of your support and interest in Pema’s work. With warmest wishes for a peaceful holiday season and much love to each of you in the new year.
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| Pema Chodron Foundation | PO Box 770630, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 |
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Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels
– Elinor Ostrom –
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Open Source Seeds
At a time when the monopolization of genetic resources by corporations is reducing diversity and limiting the variety of seeds available to farmers and gardeners, OpenSourceSeeds is licensing seeds to make them available to the commons in perpetuity. Working within German laws, they developed a licensing agreement with the express purpose of creating a new repository of genetic material for farmers worldwide to access. Dr. Johannes Kotschi, one of the leaders of this initiative explains how the licensing came about, how it protects the seeds, the farmers, and the seed’s genetics, and how others are using their process to license bees, animals and microorganisms so they remain available to the “commons” and out of the control of corporations. { read more }
Be The Change
Open Source Seeds is in the first stage of implementing their idea. YOu can learn more about them here. Consider what you might do to share the idea of open source seeds, convey the urgency of protecting seeds, bees, animals, and microorganisms and/or promote the notions of food security through diversity and the restoration of crop seeds as a common good. { more } |
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Day by day, stone by stone, build your secret slowly.
Day by day, you’ll grow too, you’ll know heaven’s glory.
– Donovan –
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Stone by Stone
Facing a row of heavy sodden soil to be turned by hand, and looking up at the wider project of other rows; these moments come up in so many ways over and over in our lives. “How will this all get done?” we wonder. The choices to procrastinate, to look for a quicker or easier method, or to give up and walk away declaring “It can’t be done!” are all possibilities. The approach we take in each of these moments has meanings and answers that go deep into the underground of our lives. Alanda Greene turns these reflections over one forkful at a time in her essay about the annual task of turning dirt. { read more }
Be The Change
The next time you face a daunting task, pause and ask yourself one or mor
e of these questions from Alandra’s essay. Use your answers to guide how you proceed. What am I choosing to express in my life? What qualities do I want to strengthen? What values do I choose to live by? |
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poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-
of turning silence
into eloquence.
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Wislawa Szymborska: The Poet and the World
Poets are Fortune’s darlings according to Wislawa Szymborska. Despite the trials and tribulations, the frustration of not feeling comfortable calling oneself a poet and the real threat of claiming the title “poet” without official certification in some countries, poets are charged with answering the inner impulse of inspiration with “I don’t know.” The search for knowing leads poets inevitably to create a body of work, one that is never fully complete. They consider every word, weighing each one to reveal what most of us consider ordinary and normal as extra-ordinary and unique. Whether stone or cloud, day or night, a single existence or a person’s existence, poets give their lives to describing a world and those in it as astonishing. What follows is the translated text of Symborska’s Nobel acceptance speech. { read more }
Be The Change
Find a poet you enjoy and use her work to inspire you to write your own poem. Choose one day and look at every thing you see and each moment as astonishing, then describe it as a poet might. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 