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We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

Tenzin Palmo

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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Different people are different.
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When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.
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Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.
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We're reborn every second, every moment.
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If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.
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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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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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As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.
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We do have the precious opportunity of this human life.
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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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In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.
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When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
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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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If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.
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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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