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
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
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
To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way… — 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
In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners. — 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
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
If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative… — 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
The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way. — 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
