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My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends, and so I was brought up with the idea that there are many realms of being all around us. So that prepared me for Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism with all its talk of different realms and dimensions of being.

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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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.
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One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.
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The Buddha himself said, I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it. And that's the Buddha.
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I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.
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