It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.

It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived as a lay person, then why did they become ordained? They have no sense that they have to give something up to gain so much.