We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

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

All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.