Tenzin Palmo Quotes About Lifetime

Quotes about: Lifetime

• Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need to reconnect to our source and drop our personal stories, don't we? Men, women, old, young, from here, from there - it is the same. All you can do is your practice. There is nothing else. Don't get caught up. Don't stop. We have to learn how to get out or our own way. Because ultimately, the only thing standing in our way is ourselves.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Men, Practice, Needs

• If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Long

• The more you realize, the more you realize how much there is to realize and, at the same time, how much you realize that there is nothing to realize. So, it's an enormous job, not something that is going to be finished in this lifetime.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Jobs, Realizing, Lifetime

  Source: fpmt.org

• 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

• Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Jobs, Kids, Ambitious

  Source: fpmt.org

• Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to many. Perhaps, in this lifetime, they were meant to work on their own practice, to try to purify their own mindstream so that in future lifetimes (that will last a lot longer than this one), they will be fit vessels to give the teachings to others.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teaching, Practice, Giving

  Source: fpmt.org

• I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Enlightenment, Matter, Female

  "Feminism Awakens In Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation" by G. Roger Denson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2015.

• At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Depth, Would Be

  Source: fpmt.org

• Actually we've got countless lifetimes, so relax.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Relax, Lifetime

• There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Knowing, Giving, Joy

  Source: fpmt.org

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

  Tenzin Palmo

  Merit, Lifetime, Things To Do

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