Buddhism Quotes by Tenzin Palmo

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and…

— Tenzin Palmo

The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind…

— Tenzin Palmo

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

— Tenzin Palmo

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

— Tenzin Palmo

I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes

— Tenzin Palmo

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

— Tenzin Palmo

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

— Tenzin Palmo

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

— Tenzin Palmo

From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

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

I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends,…

— Tenzin Palmo

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

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Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness…

— Tenzin Palmo

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

— Tenzin Palmo

The dharma is here. And the dharma is in your heart. Where else would it be?

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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

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do…

— Tenzin Palmo

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

— Tenzin Palmo

Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority…

— Tenzin Palmo

In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined…

— Tenzin Palmo

What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th.…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and…

— Tenzin Palmo