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.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.

Just because someone is very charismatic, it doesn't mean that they're genuinely qualified.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?