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

The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.

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

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.

I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.