I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious. - Tenzin Palmo

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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything. . . and then 'The Wire' came up.

Tenzin Palmo

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

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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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