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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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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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In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.
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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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Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.
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The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and transform our whole lives into dharma practice. Otherwise, at the time of death, we will look back and say, now what was all that about? If we truly want to benefit others and ourselves, we have to do it. No excuses.
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We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.
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Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.
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Actually we've got countless lifetimes, so relax.
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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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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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I'm glad that I'm female.
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A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.
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When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
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In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.
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If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?
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The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.
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Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with 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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