Tenzin Palmo Quotes - Page 9

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• 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.

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  Buddhist, Philosophy, Teaching

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• When I look back I feel very grateful.

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  Grateful, Looks, Feels

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• Forget about realizing shunyata and going on the different bhumis and all this. Just stay in the moment, stay aware, be kind and try to improve your mind.

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  Mind, Trying, Different

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• Other people may tell us, "Oh, you're so much nicer." Of course you can't hope that other people will tell you that you're so much nicer, but that's always a good sign. Perhaps people find that you're easier to live with.

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  People, May, Easier

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• If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

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  Calling, Ifs

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• You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.

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  Thinking, Mind, Realizing

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• People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.

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  Heart, People, Cold

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• I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.

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  Mother, Doe, Asking

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• Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret initiations. Leave that. Just keep the practice very simple, try to stay in the moment and try to stay mindful.

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  Teaching, Simple, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Past, Female, Lasts

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• If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

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  Opportunity, Practice, Incentives

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• Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and again until we recognized our innate perfection.

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  Children, Perfect, Coming Back

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• Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.

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  Spiritual, Grateful, Buddhism

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• My body is not good for prostrations.

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  Body, Prostration

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• 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.

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  Player, Practice, Dharma

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• You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

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  Mind

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

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  Heart, Dharma

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• I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

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  Thinking, East, Needs

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• If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

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  Doe, Empowered, Nun

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• I think many monks hesitate to change things.

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  Thinking, Monk

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• Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

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  Beautiful, Winter, Perfect

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• Until you are open, you cannot receive.

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

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  Moving, Practice, Ordinary

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• We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah... right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.

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  Drinking, Thinking, Here I Am

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