All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world -… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will… — 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
In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
For some people, every door opens, and they meet just who they need to meet when they need to meet them, all… — 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 problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep… — 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
