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
As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously. — 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.… — 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
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
Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret… — 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
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
You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer… — 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
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
I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as… — 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
It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also… — 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
If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we… — 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'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
Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to… — 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
Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions 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
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
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
