Tenzin Palmo Quotes About Dharma

Quotes about: Dharma

• Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Views, People, Priorities

• The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hands, Energy, Dharma

  Source: fpmt.org

• The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Special, Realizing

  Source: fpmt.org

• I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the Dharma. I was halfway through the book when I turned to my mother and said, "I'm a Buddhist," to which she replied, "Oh are you dear? Well finish the book and then you can tell me about it." I realised I'd always been Buddhist but I just hadn't known it existed, because in those days not even the word 'Buddha' was ever spoken. This was in in the 1960s, so there wasn't that much available, even in London.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: studybuddhism.com

• Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Differences, Everyday, Separation

• 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.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Play, People

  Source: fpmt.org

• I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Teaching

  Source: fpmt.org

• When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perfect, Ego, Mind

• Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Reading, Practice

• The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Use, Way

• Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is Japan, which threw out almost all the dharma, and just kept that essence, which spoke to them.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Country, Buddhism, Japan

• All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take them all and use them on the path in a way that actually invigorates and strengthens us, rather than defeats us. It's all very practical advice, and that's why I talk a lot about how to make our daily life into Dharma practice, otherwise it's easy to feel hopeless and helpless.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, People, Advice

  Source: studybuddhism.com

• The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Joy, Mind, Purpose

• The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and transform our whole lives into dharma practice. Otherwise, at the time of death, we will look back and say, now what was all that about? If we truly want to benefit others and ourselves, we have to do it. No excuses.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, Looks

• If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Negative, Problem, Made

• Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Worldly Life, Energy

  Source: fpmt.org

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

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Dharma

• We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who share the same values and can encourage us and help us to remember that we're not alone or peculiar, but that what we're doing is a very valid way of life. This will encourage us to put the Dharma at the centre of our life and not the periphery, to use our daily life as our Dharma practice.

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  One Direction, Practice, Peculiar

  Source: studybuddhism.com

• Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Needs, Entering, Merit

• Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the Dharma, then it is a logical step to adopt a form of life that automatically precludes worldly distractions.

  Tenzin Palmo

  World, Matter, Steps

  Source: fpmt.org

• If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Might, Path, Unlikely

• 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 the same in dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Player, Practice, Dharma

• We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Moving, Practice, Ordinary

• We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heaven, Different, Benefits

• Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Sitting, Benefits

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