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Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.
Tenzin Palmo
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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
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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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The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.
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We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.
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We're reborn every second, every moment.
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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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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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Once one has understand what is Buddhadharma, what is not Buddhadharma, and once one has had enough view to see the different approaches, then it's important to really look at what speaks to one's heart.
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There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.
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Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.
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First you have to help yourself.
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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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You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.
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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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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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At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.
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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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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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I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
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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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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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