Category: Quotes

[Regarding teachings] The more you listen, the more you see, it is not the best; it sometimes becomes an obstacle. Just like food, it does not help to cook all your food (at once). You cook only what you can eat, if you cook more than that, it is a waste. The same is with … Continued

Every day, we can take these practices to heart, include them into our daily activities, like eating our food. We want to absorb it, digest it and then, we get realization and experience. Otherwise, if there is just listening, listening, listening, I can teach you for 24 hours. But what will the use be? Then … Continued

Many of your practices or your problems you are not able to resolve. (Why), because what I have told you today, tomorrow you will return to your own problem. You are still attached to the problem. So, the problem still exists. If right at the beginning you just let go, you would not have to … Continued

Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself,Impossible it is that all should be suppressed.But let this angry mind alone be overthrown,And it is as though all foes have been subdued. Shantideva

Everything is fine. I say over here, ‘it’s fine’, I say over there ‘fine’, this is just where I want to sit. When you have something to do, instead of giving rise to all sorts of afflictions and unhappiness, why do we not just think ‘wonderful’, ‘this is the best thing’, ‘what a great opportunity’. … Continued

Those who wish to safeguard their trainingMust carefully protect their minds.For if the mind is not protectedThey will be unable to safeguard their training. Shantideva

The state of your realization is not how long you can look into the sky for. The real realization is what your practice is like in any environment, that you do not give rise to any afflictive emotions no matter what is happening. This is the evidence of a great practitioner.  Irrespective of what you … Continued

Be careful of cultivating negative habits. Do not develop negative habits of attachment, aversion and ignorance. What you must be able to do is face good and bad.

As soon as I go outside, there is sunlight. When, within your mind, within your heart there is no light, then, the sunlight cannot find you. All that sunlight does is find your body. If you have sunlight within your heart, within your mind, wherever you are, there is sunlight. This is important to practice, … Continued

Of course, there is a lot of suffering; why do we have so many problems? It is because we do not want to let go. And why we do not want to let go? – if we let go, we are going to be free. Where is the suffering going to come from? Where will … Continued