To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind… — 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… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived… — 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
I'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma… — 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
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
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
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
There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have and have… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share
