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The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

Tenzin Palmo

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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
Merit
Lifetime
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Thing

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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'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha, and if they're practicing well and are good people with good hearts, then you have a cause for trust.
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In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.
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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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We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.
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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 a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.
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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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Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.
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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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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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The power of thought is extremely powerful.
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We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.
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We're reborn every second, every moment.
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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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If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.
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We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.
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I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick up and not just read books but actually understand them. This level of education is very rare throughout history, so we shouldn't take it for granted.
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If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.
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