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Other people may tell us, Oh, you're so much nicer. Of course you can't hope that other people will tell you that you're so much nicer, but that's always a good sign. Perhaps people find that you're easier to live with.
Tenzin Palmo
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Tenzin Palmo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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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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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
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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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The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.
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The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.
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Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.
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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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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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The nature of the mind is completely incredible.
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From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.
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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 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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The power of thought is extremely powerful.
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It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.
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The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.
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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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We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.
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The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and transform our whole lives into dharma practice. Otherwise, at the time of death, we will look back and say, now what was all that about? If we truly want to benefit others and ourselves, we have to do it. No excuses.
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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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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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