A Buddhist Pain Prescription

Are we getting any better at this shit?

Before Pema Chödrön became a Buddhist nun, she was a twice-divorced mother of two in her 30s. During this time she read a book about Confucius which mentioned something that changed her life completely. It stated that (paraphrasing) if you work as hard as you can to avoid shutting down and resisting the things that happen to you, then by the time you’re…