Tenzin Palmo
We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.Collection: Thinking
Try to develop some genuine love and compassion, some real caring for others.Collection: Real
I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick up and not just read books but actually understand them. This level of education is very rare throughout history, so we shouldn't take it for granted.Collection: Book
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.Collection: Meaningful
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.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Heart
It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.Collection: People
The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Heart
I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.Collection: Compassion
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.Collection: Practice
Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.Collection: Mind
There are wonderful beings in this world.Collection: World
Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.Collection: Simple
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.Collection: Enlightenment
One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.Collection: Approach
We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.Collection: Taken
The power of thought is extremely powerful.Collection: Powerful
You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.Collection: Practice
You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.Collection: Swimming
It's important to lighten up a bit!Collection: Important
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.Collection: Buddhist
To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.Collection: Cutting
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.Collection: Order
The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.Collection: Buddhism
Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: One Direction
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.Collection: Sports
I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.Collection: Thinking
People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.Collection: Thinking
The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.Collection: Good Friend
First you have to help yourself.Collection: Firsts
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the quickest and most effective ways to do this is in isolation, with very few distractions, working very hard at it and spending all your time and efforts at changing your mind.Collection: Working Very Hard
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.Collection: World
Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.Collection: Practice
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.Collection: Needs