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 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
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your… — 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
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
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
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped. — 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
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
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
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
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
The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
