Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

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

There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.

A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.

People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.

We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.