Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

- Gelek Rimpoche

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

- Gelek Rimpoche

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

- Gelek Rimpoche

The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not b…

- Gelek Rimpoche

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world aro…

- Gelek Rimpoche

If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true c…

- Gelek Rimpoche

Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion.…

- Gelek Rimpoche

Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves…

- Gelek Rimpoche