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If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

Tenzin Palmo

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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Bhikkhuni
Nun
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Herts
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Inner
Calling
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Ahead

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The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.
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The nature of the mind is completely incredible.
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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
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Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.
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Still all the tulkus being born are men.
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From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.
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We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.
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Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.
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We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.
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From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really understand how to benefit beings, not just on the physical level, but on all levels. Then there are endless beings you can benefit.
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Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.
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In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.
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Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.
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We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.
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In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.
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It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.
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I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.
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If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.
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There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.
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