The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.

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.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

Still all the tulkus being born are men.

A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.

If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

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.