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

If we want to be musicians, dancers or sportspeople, we can download a certain amount and watch DVDs and read books, but in the end we need someone to assess us and give us personal instruction. The two go together.

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

People talk over and over about bodhichitta, but so often their heart is quite cold.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.