I think the difference is that when we drink tea, we just drink tea. But if you're in the presence of a genuine master, they don't have to do anything but drink their tea, and yet it affects you at an incredibly profound level.

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

To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

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

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.