All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take them all and use them on the path in a way that actually invigorates and strengthens us, rather than defeats us. It's all very practical advice, and that's why I talk a lot about how to make our daily life into Dharma practice, otherwise it's easy to feel hopeless and helpless.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.