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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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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.
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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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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
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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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You have to recharge your batteries.
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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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Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.
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A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.
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We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.
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I'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha, and if they're practicing well and are good people with good hearts, then you have a cause for trust.
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We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?
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The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.
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We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.
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To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.
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As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.
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First you have to help yourself.
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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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As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.
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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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One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.
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