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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
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It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.
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You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.
Tenzin Palmo
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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I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.
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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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When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
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A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.
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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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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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I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.
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In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.
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Until you are open, you cannot receive.
Tenzin Palmo
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.
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Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.
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The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.
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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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Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.
Tenzin Palmo
We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.
Tenzin Palmo
When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
Tenzin Palmo
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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