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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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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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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
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The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.
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Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.
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When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, I'm a Buddhist! She said, That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it. From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.
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There are wonderful beings in this world.
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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 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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We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets.
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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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Once one has understand what is Buddhadharma, what is not Buddhadharma, and once one has had enough view to see the different approaches, then it's important to really look at what speaks to one's heart.
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One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.
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Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.
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There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.
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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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I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
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In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.
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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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Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.
Tenzin Palmo
People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
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