If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

My body is not good for prostrations.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.

The more you realize, the more you realize how much there is to realize and, at the same time, how much you realize that there is nothing to realize. So, it's an enormous job, not something that is going to be finished in this lifetime.

You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.