Tenzin Palmo Quotes About Past Lives

Quotes about: Past Lives

• It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Frogs, Unlikely

• I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Female, Lasts

• We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Girl, Sex, Inspiration

  Source: fpmt.org

• In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Names, Done

• Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn't some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Night, Mind

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