The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.