My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

Merit clears away obstacles.

Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

We're reborn every second, every moment.