Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.
Tenzin PalmoTo want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.
Tenzin PalmoThe real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.
Tenzin PalmoThe future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.
Tenzin PalmoIf you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.
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