Tenzin Palmo Quotes

Different people are different.

People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

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.

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

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort.

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

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

We have the pure nature of the mind.

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.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.

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

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

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.