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

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah... right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.

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 power of thought is extremely powerful.

If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.