There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.

There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.