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Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we get inspired and can carry what we've gained into our daily life, which is very important.

Tenzin Palmo

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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 82
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.
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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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Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.
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Actually we've got countless lifetimes, so relax.
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The Buddha himself said, I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it. And that's the Buddha.
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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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This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.
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It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.
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I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.
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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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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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The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path some of them don't.
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I think the difference is that when we drink tea, we just drink tea. But if you're in the presence of a genuine master, they don't have to do anything but drink their tea, and yet it affects you at an incredibly profound level.
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Different people are different.
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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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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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Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.
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If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.
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The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.
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If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.
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