Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and… — 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
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — 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
Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to… — 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
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
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for… — 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
