When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.
Tenzin PalmoAs a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.
Tenzin PalmoThe real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.
Tenzin PalmoThe Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.
Tenzin Palmo