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                                             September 30, 2010
                                             September 04, 2013

   "Living Room"
    Kris Welch, KPFA,            Pema Chodron has been
    aired 9/20/10.               director of Gampo Abbey in
                                 Nova Scotia since 1984.
  I typed up some                She's an american-born
  notes from an                  tibetan buddhist nun.
  interview with Pema
  Chodron author of              "She worked with Chogyam Trungpa
  "Unconditional                 Rinpoche from 1974 until 1987."
  Confidence":                   But before that she studied with:
                                 "Lama Chime Rinpoche"

                                               So Rinpoche is apparenly an
  She quotes "Rinpoche":                       honorific.  According to
                                               Uncle Wikipedia, it's used
  "The source of                               for "reincarnated Tibetan     
  confidence is                                lamas", and "It literally    
  'gentleness to        " ...  a kind of       means 'precious one,'        
  oneself'"             precision see          
                        very clearly stay                           
  "Train in             open and present"
  acknowledging the
  harshness and in
  lightening up."


     Or as Werner Earhardt
     liked to put it:

       "Don't beat yourself up"

       (Beat up *other* people.)








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