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
Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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
Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Forget about realizing shunyata and going on the different bhumis and all this. Just stay in the moment, stay aware, be kind… — 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
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
You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of… — 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
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
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being… — 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
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
It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations… — 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
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One… — 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
