The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

One thing in the Buddhadharma is that we are not our body, we are not our gender.

From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.

Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

When I look back I feel very grateful.

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.