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

When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.

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.

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really understand how to benefit beings, not just on the physical level, but on all levels. Then there are endless beings you can benefit.