We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.

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

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.