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

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.

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?

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

It's interesting to see people's projections because one lives very much in the world of projections.

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

In the beginning especially, we won't realize we're changing.