You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.