Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

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.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

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

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society