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Tenzin Palmo – How Negative Thoughts Create Our Difficulties Why do we experience difficulties? Highly respected teacher Tenzin Palmo discusses this in depth and how it relates to the nature of mind in her usual helpful style. This 66-minute CD captures this talk, given in Tel Aviv. “The mind is our greatest treasure” We project our version of the world through the distortions of our consciousness polluted by delusion, greed, and aversion—and so we suffer. Usually we blame the outside situation and other people for our problems, rather than accepting our responsibility. However, the good news is that we can develop a peaceful and happy mind. In reality, to know the nature of mind is our most precious discovery. 3) Why we experience difficulties 3) The nature of mind 3) Relative mind 6) Mindfulness 6) Questions and answersJetsunma Tenzin Palmo was raised in London and whilst in her teens she became a Buddhist. In 1964, at the age of twenty, she decided to go to India to pursue her spiritual path.There she met her Guru, His Eminence the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche, a great Drukpa Kagyu lama, and became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She remained with Khamtrul Rinpoche and his community in Himachal Pradesh, northern India, for six years and then he directed her to the Himalayan valley of Lahaul in order to undertake more intensive practice. Tenzin Palmo stayed in a small monastery there for several years, remaining in retreat during the long winter months. Then, seeking more seclusion and better conditions for practice, she found a nearby cave where she remained for another 12 years, the last 3 years in strict retreat. She left India in 1988 and went to stay in Italy where she taught at various Dharma centres