Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret initiations. Leave that. Just keep the practice very simple, try to stay in the moment and try to stay mindful.

When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

Actually we've got countless lifetimes, so relax.

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

As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.