Mindfully infused with various Buddhist skills, this episode features a dialogue between Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Raghu Markus on the many opportunities for practice in our daily lives.
“During our daily life, we have so much opportunity to practice. To practice being generous, to practice being patient in the face of other people’s problems, the opportunity to keep pure ethical conduct and never harm or lie or cause any problems for others. During our day, we have these endless opportunities for practicing these qualities of the heart, so we should be grateful because sitting on a cushion is not an opportunity really to practice being generous, ethical, or patient.” – Tenzin Palmo
This time on Mindrolling, Raghu Markus and Tenzin Palmo explore:
- Tenzin Palmo’s earliest experiences of connecting to The Buddha
- The imminence of death
- Tenzin’s Book, Reflections on a Mountain Lake
- What perfection is and how we can realize it
- Tenzin’s journey to the guru in India
- Women on the path of Buddhism
- The process of starting a nunnery
- Non-self, the ego, and Becoming nobody
- Recommendations from the Buddha
- Taming the mind
- Starting with ourselves when we cultivate compassion
- The six paramitas (perfections) of the Bodhisattva path
- Opportunities for practice in our daily lives
- Death, letting people go, and expressing love
- Spirituality as a path of joy
About Tenzin Palmo:
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (born 1943) is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat.