Tenzin Palmo Quotes - Page 6

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• If you want to be a doctor, you may say, There are all these beings, they're sick, they're dying, I've got to go out and help them. And so you grab a bag full of scalpels and medicine and rush off. Even though your motivation is very pure, you end up harming beings because you don't know what you're doing.

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  Motivation, Doctors, Medicine

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• Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, we're either conscious, or we're not.

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  Conscious

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• 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.

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  Perfect, Ego, Mind

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• Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.

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  Trying, Quality, World

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.

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  Hurt, Practice, Play

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• Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

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  Cutting, Emotional, Distraction

  Source: fpmt.org

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• We have the pure nature of the mind.

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  Mind, Pure

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• To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

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  Ties, Mind, Relax

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• We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

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  Teacher, Feet, Giving

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple.

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  Teacher, Simple, People

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.

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  Giving, Suffering, Needs

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• Merit clears away obstacles.

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  Merit, Obstacles

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• Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.

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  Training, Mind, Important

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

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  Mirrors, Dust, Gone

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• Just because someone is very charismatic, it doesn't mean that they're genuinely qualified.

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  Mean, Charismatic, Qualified

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, "I'm a Buddhist!" She said, "That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it." From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.

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  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as bodhisattvas. And Milarepa said that as long as space exists, so long will there be beings for you to help.

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  Space, Long, Caves

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• As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself.

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  Practice, Lama

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.

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  Pain, Eye, People

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• As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

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  Voice, Educated

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• One thing in the Buddhadharma is that we are not our body, we are not our gender.

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  Body, Gender, One Thing

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• Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we get inspired and can carry what we've gained into our daily life, which is very important.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Important

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Giving, Joy

  Source: fpmt.org

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• When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.

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  Boys, Body, Heard

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• The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world. For one thing, being Western puts you outside the limits. A token female doesn't hurt - there's only one.

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  Hurt, Friendly, Limits

  Source: fpmt.org

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