There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend 18 years at it. But still, a basic and uncompromised understanding of Buddhist principles is important. Very basic:… — 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
