We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

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

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

I think we females have a lot of work to do for each other.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.