If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want to be a doctor, you may say, There are all these beings, they're sick, they're dying, I've got to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and… — 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
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
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. — 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
