If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

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

A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.

Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

I'm glad that I'm female.

We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?