The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. — 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
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
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
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
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 purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an… — 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
If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born… — 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
All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma. — 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
People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the… — 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
Once one has understand what is Buddhadharma, what is not Buddhadharma, and once one has had enough view to see the different… — 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
Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help… — 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
Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret… — 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
Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the… — 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
