A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.