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Bhikkhuni Inspirational Quotes (149)

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At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.
Tenzin Palmo
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With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
Cheng Yen
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When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
Tenzin Palmo
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There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.
Tenzin Palmo
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Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.
Tenzin Palmo
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You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
Wumen Huikai
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
Wumen Huikai
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The Great Way has no gate / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
Wumen Huikai
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
Wumen Huikai
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There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.
Wumen Huikai
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One instant is eternity / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
Wumen Huikai
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I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.
Tenzin Palmo
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Take the whole universe all at once and put it on your eyelashes.
Yunmen Wenyan
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Every day is a good day.
Yunmen Wenyan
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There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.
Tenzin Palmo
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In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.
Tenzin Palmo
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Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures it does not depend upon texts.
Robert Linssen
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I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
Tenzin Palmo
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The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.
Tenzin Palmo
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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Wumen Huikai
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Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.
Tenzin Palmo
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If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But don't wobble.
Yunmen Wenyan
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Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.
Tenzin Palmo
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When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.
Tenzin Palmo
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