If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.

If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.

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

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.