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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.
Tenzin Palmo
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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.
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I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
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Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.
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Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.
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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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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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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.
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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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I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.
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If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.
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When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, I'm a Buddhist! She said, That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it. From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.
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The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.
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The nature of the mind is completely incredible.
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I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.
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Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.
Tenzin Palmo
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.
Tenzin Palmo
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.
Tenzin Palmo
You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.
Tenzin Palmo
The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.
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