To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

We're reborn every second, every moment.

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

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

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

One of the beauties of the Buddhadharma is there are so many approaches, and not everything is right for everybody.