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.

The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.

If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.