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The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path some of them don't.

Tenzin Palmo

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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
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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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I think we females have a lot of work to do for each other.
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Until you are open, you cannot receive.
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If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.
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Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.
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There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.
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The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.
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All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.
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Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.
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The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.
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Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.
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I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.
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In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.
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We do have the precious opportunity of this human life.
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If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.
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In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.
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In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.
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We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. All of us can access this. It's not so difficult. With some instruction and practice, anybody can do it.
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I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.
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