Tenzin Palmo Quotes About Dharma

Quotes about: Dharma

• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Player, Practice, Dharma

• 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

• 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.

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  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

• If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

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  Dharma, Meetings, Humans

• We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Practice, Ideas

• Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

• 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

• It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

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  Merit, Dharma, Interest

• In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Important, Sincere

  Source: fpmt.org

• If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, People

  Source: fpmt.org

• 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

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