Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The dharma is here. And the dharma is in your heart. Where else would it be? — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have and have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
