To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One… — 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… — 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… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going… — 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
We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who… — 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
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Forget about realizing shunyata and going on the different bhumis and all this. Just stay in the moment, stay aware, be kind… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to… — 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
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
I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have… — 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
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
Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for… — 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
