If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.

We have the pure nature of the mind.

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.