Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

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.