Tenzin Palmo Quotes

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

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  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.

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  Love, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

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  Growing Up, Giving, Generosity

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• Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need to reconnect to our source and drop our personal stories, don't we? Men, women, old, young, from here, from there - it is the same. All you can do is your practice. There is nothing else. Don't get caught up. Don't stop. We have to learn how to get out or our own way. Because ultimately, the only thing standing in our way is ourselves.

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  Men, Practice, Needs

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• Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

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  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• 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 done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.

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  Heart, Caring, Genuine Love

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• The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

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  Mind, Relax, Firsts

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• All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

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  Believe, Roles, World

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• Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions,
  that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

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  Meditation, Emotion, Being Me

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• We're reborn every second, every moment.

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  Moments, Reborn, Every Second

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• To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the quickest and most effective ways to do this is in isolation, with very few distractions, working very hard at it and spending all your time and efforts at changing your mind.

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  Working Very Hard, Effort, Mind

  Source: fpmt.org

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• In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

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  Light, Long, Shining

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• One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

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  Lying, Simplicity, Inner Peace

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• I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to the darkness. So rather than that, we need to think of the beauty in the world, and also send out love and compassion to all beings in this world. Not just the people we like, but people who we find difficult. Because they are very deeply in need of compassion.

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  Dark, Thinking, Compassion

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

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  Half, Way, Half Way

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

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  Attitude, Optimistic, Negative

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• It's very important to realize that every person that you meet, everything that you do, with the right attitude and a little awareness and skillful means - we can transform everything - all our joys and sorrows.

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  Attitude, Mean, Joy

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• Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.

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  Loneliness, Self Esteem, Ambition

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!

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  Perseverance, Determination, Attitude

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

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  Intelligent, Dumb, Males

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• We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know it. Gradually we'll become more and more accustomed to being conscious of what we're thinking and our various positive and negative states. We'll become more and more the masters of our mind, rather than the slaves.

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  Commitment, Thinking, Dwelling

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• We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. All of us can access this. It's not so difficult. With some instruction and practice, anybody can do it.

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  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• The more you realize, the more you realize how much there is to realize and, at the same time, how much you realize that there is nothing to realize. So, it's an enormous job, not something that is going to be finished in this lifetime.

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  Jobs, Realizing, Lifetime

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

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  Meditation, Levels, Way

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick up and not just read books but actually understand them. This level of education is very rare throughout history, so we shouldn't take it for granted.

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  Book, Thinking, Practice

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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