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
The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them… — 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
Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the… — 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
It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important. — 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
