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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 dharma is here. And the dharma is in your heart. Where else would it be? — 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
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 Image
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 Image
I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
