Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

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.

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

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

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