We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going … - Tenzin Palmo

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Tenzin Palmo

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

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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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