Palmo Center

10/13/2026

10/12/2026

“You do not have to wait until the flame has gone out to be reborn. I am reborn many times every day. Every moment is a moment of rebirth. My practice is to be reborn in such a way that my new forms of manifestation will bring light, freedom and happiness into the world. My practice is not to allow wrong actions to be reborn. If I have a cruel thought or if my words carry hatred in them, then those thoughts and words will be reborn. It will be difficult to catch them and pull them back. They are like a runaway horse. We should try not to allow our actions of body, speech and mind to take us in the direction of wrong action, wrong speech and wrong thinking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

10/11/2026

“Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.”

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

10/10/2026

“Intention is the karma of the mind.”

Gunaprabha, The Treasury of Abhidharma

10/09/2026

“Although we do a hundred thousand prostrations and the same number of recitations of each of the five ngondro sections, practicing the ngondro is not simply a question of counting up numbers.

The real point of these preliminaries is to appreciate that this human life offers a rare opportunity for one to achieve liberation, to realize the urgency of doing so, to generate a strong conviction that the ordinary samsaric condition produces only suffering, and to realize that suffering comes about through karma, and is the effect of negative actions.

When we have a genuine understanding of these four points, the main point of ngondro has been realized. You should not merely think about them, but experience them in your very being. The correct practice of the preliminaries is to make this experience part of yourself.”

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

10/08/2026

“Don’t mistake mere words to be the meaning of the teachings. Mingle the practice with your own being and attain liberation from samsara right now.”

Padmasambhava

10/07/2026

“May you be at peace,
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light of your own true nature.
May you be healed,
May you be a source of healing for all beings.”

Buddhist Prayer

10/06/2026

“Practice without being tense, but be present and aware. Be free of thoughts and spacious but don’t space out. Be ready with whatever arises, not with judgement but with acceptance and kindness. Always remain, calm, kind and clear.”

Tulku Jigme Rinpoche

10/05/2026

“If you look out, you will be stuck in.
But if you look in, you will get out.”

Chamtrul Rinpoche

10/04/2026

“Do not hoard for your own benefit all your learning, possessions, and whatever else you may have accomplished. Instead, dedicate everything to all beings, and make the wish that they may all be able to listen, reflect, and meditate on the Dharma. Simply to express such a prayer is highly beneficial. Anything done with pure intention, even the wish to relieve beings from their headaches, has great merit. So the merit is all the more if you pray to free all beings from samsara. Since the number of beings is infinite, the merit of such a prayer is infinite, too.

Whether you are practicing the generation or perfection phase, Mahamudra, or Ati Yoga, as long as your practice is permeated with bodhichitta, it is naturally a Mahayana practice. But without the bodhichitta, your practice can only stagnate.”

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche