To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha … - Tenzin Palmo

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All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer.

Tenzin Palmo

To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.

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We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?

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If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

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The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

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When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

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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.

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