Tenzin Palmo Quotes - Page 4

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• If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.

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  Mirrors, Dust, Circles

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• The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

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  Spiritual, Real, Mind

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• From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really understand how to benefit beings, not just on the physical level, but on all levels. Then there are endless beings you can benefit.

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  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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

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  Mean, Enlightenment, Speak

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• It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

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  Country, Opportunity, Korea

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• The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

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  Merit, Lifetime, Things To Do

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• With sincerity from the depths of your heart to do the best you can, just keep going and don't worry too much that you're not Milarepa or Rechungpa.

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  Heart, Worry, Depth

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I think the difference is that when we drink tea, we just drink tea. But if you're in the presence of a genuine master, they don't have to do anything but drink their tea, and yet it affects you at an incredibly profound level.

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  Thinking, Differences, Profound

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• We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets.

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  Appreciation, Regret, Waste

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.

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  Practice, Play, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.

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  Realizing

  Source: fpmt.org

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• On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

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  Fall, Identity, Needs

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• Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point is, as Zen is always saying - and Tibetans understand this also very well - every activity becomes perfect Buddha activity.

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  Mean, Light, Air

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• I think we females have a lot of work to do for each other.

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  Thinking, Female

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• We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend 18 years at it. But still, a basic and uncompromised understanding of Buddhist principles is important. Very basic: the three signs of being, the four noble rruths, karma, and so on.

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  Karma, Buddhist, Years

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I find that being with other people dissipates my energy.

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  People, Energy

  Source: fpmt.org

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• One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.

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  Practice, Balance, Relax

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• If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.

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  Doctors, Medicine, Use

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

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Spiritual Life

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• The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

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  Ignorance, Benefits, Levels

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• We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

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  Benefits, Merit, Score

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• A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.

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  Motivation, Skills, Space

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• From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

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  Views, Emptiness, Point Of View

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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 our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.

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  Pain, Ignorance, Compassion

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• The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

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  Painful, Samsara, Said

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