It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

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.

Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.