I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.