For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.

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