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“For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?” quote by Tenzin Palmo — Download Open image

“For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?”

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I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.

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“Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.”

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“As for the notion of Buddha nature, there is no reifying interpretation of it in any of the texts of the lineage of vast activity. The teachings on Buddha nature are not meant as a philosophical or even ontological alternative to emptiness. Buddha nature or the luminous nature of the mind is not seen as a monistic absolute beside which…

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It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

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“Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our own being. He never stressed that we had to know what he was, what a buddha is. All he wanted was for us to understand our own nature. Isn’t that so simple? We don’t have to believe in…

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To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

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