Different people are different.

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

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.

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

If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.

My mother was superb. Even when I said to her, when I was nineteen, oh, I'm going to India. Her immediate reaction was, oh yes dear, and when are you leaving? She didn't say, oh how could you leave me, your mother? Or wait a bit dear until you get a bit older and you know your own mind. She just said, well, when are you going? And that was because she loved me, not because she didn't love me.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.