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Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.
Tenzin Palmo
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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.
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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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The power of thought is extremely powerful.
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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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Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.
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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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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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