Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.

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

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

My body is not good for prostrations.

In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.