Tao Te Ching
Freda Bedi, Sister Palmo
1911 – 1977 CE
Freda Bedi, Sister Palmo (1911 – 1977)
First Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun and married to a Sikh from Guru Nanak’s clan; Freda Bedi spoke before hundreds of thousands of people helping Gandhi and his national independence movement, was arrested and and spent months in prison held along with her children. People came to her by the thousands just for her blessing and she later worked for the United Nations Social Services, the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Tibetan Refugees Commission. Nehru asked her to be in charge of the Social Welfare Board in 1959 when the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans arrived in India and she began studying with the 16th Karmapa. She helped establish the Young Lamas Home School and asked Chogyam Trungpa to train and become spiritual advisor to young monks there.
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Quotes by Freda Bedi, Sister Palmo (7 quotes)
“The world of meditation is of extraordinary beauty… all concepts and confusion fall away.”
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“Dreams are as illusory as reality experienced when awake”
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“Mind in its natural state is radiantly void. The sense of a permanent ego dims this inner light.”
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“It is always the intellectuals that suffer in any repressive society. But such situations toughen the moral fiber.”
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“Bliss and radiance occur of themselves when the mind is tranquil.”
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