We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know i….

In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the wel….

It's very important to realize that every person that you meet, everything that you do, with the right attitude and a little awareness and skillful m….

Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature….

We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delig….

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside..

Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior..

Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need ….

If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect….

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won….

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind..

Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind.….

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing ….

Our pure awareness is not male or female..

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and intercon….

I think to dwell continually on the dark side creates gloom and despair and anger and hatred, and that just adds to the darkness. So rather than that….

It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months ….

All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take ….

Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it i….

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way..

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way..