If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.