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If women have made the choice to have children then they should develop a practice which makes the family the dharma path. Otherwise they’ll end up being very frustrated.
Very close relationships can be very distracting, let’s admit it.’
‘You have to put all the ingredients into a pot and stew it up. And you have to have a constant heat. If you keep turning the heat on and off it is never going to be done.
If we approach something with an angry mind what happens is that it leads to antagonism and defensiveness in the other side. The Buddha said hatred is not overcome by hatred, but only by love.
it comes down to poise and inner strength. When you have those you have natural authority, and people will automatically want to follow you.
People are only too pleased to have her company for as long as she can be with them – offering her plane tickets, their houses, food, transport, money, so that all her physical needs are met.
‘A true monastic lives without security, dependent on the unsolicited generosity of others.
We should have faith that if we practise sincerely we won’t starve, we will be supported not just materially but in every way.’
Tenzin Palmo stands in a strange counter-flow to the rest of twentieth-century society with its emphasis on acquisition and satisfaction of desire.
For all her efficiency and the demands of her teaching schedule, her pace is slow and there is an uncommon air of leisure about her.
‘being’ is often better than ’doing’ and that taking time out to be still and think is often a better investment for future productivity than cramming every waking moment with feverish activity.
People, especially family, get upset if you are not attached to them but that’s only because we confuse love and attachment all the time.’
