Tenzin Palmo

The power of thought is extremely powerful.

— Tenzin Palmo

You have to recharge your batteries.

— Tenzin Palmo

Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.

— Tenzin Palmo

In this life you have obstacles.

— Tenzin Palmo

We have the pure nature of the mind.

— Tenzin Palmo

Merit clears away obstacles.

— Tenzin Palmo

It's important to lighten up a bit!

— Tenzin Palmo

My body is not good for prostrations.

— Tenzin Palmo

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

— Tenzin Palmo

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

— Tenzin Palmo

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

— Tenzin Palmo

Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.

— Tenzin Palmo

Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.

— Tenzin Palmo

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

— Tenzin Palmo

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

— Tenzin Palmo

The dharma is here. And the dharma is in your heart. Where else would it be?

— Tenzin Palmo

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born…

— Tenzin Palmo

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

— Tenzin Palmo

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

— Tenzin Palmo

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners.…

— Tenzin Palmo

The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an…

— Tenzin Palmo

Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and…

— Tenzin Palmo

Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do…

— Tenzin Palmo

I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I…

— Tenzin Palmo

Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point…

— Tenzin Palmo

The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction…

— Tenzin Palmo

If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of…

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What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th.…

— Tenzin Palmo

Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you…

— Tenzin Palmo

All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see…

— Tenzin Palmo

I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the…

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We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through…

— Tenzin Palmo

If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main…

— Tenzin Palmo

I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.…

— Tenzin Palmo