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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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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Bhikkhuni
Nun
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Herts
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Everything
Humans
Planting
Come
Countless
Done
Seeds
Going
Negative
Imagine
Times
Human

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