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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.

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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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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The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.
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Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.
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Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the Dharma, then it is a logical step to adopt a form of life that automatically precludes worldly distractions.
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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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When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.
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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.
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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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This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.
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If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?
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Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.
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We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.
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In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.
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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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We're reborn every second, every moment.
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I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.
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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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We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.
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We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.
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We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.
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