With sincerity from the depths of your heart to do the best you can, just keep going and don't worry too much that you're not Milarepa or Rechungpa.

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

The power of thought is extremely powerful.

People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.