Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

The goal of meditation is not tranquillity but to discipline our thoughts so we can experience the freedom of reality.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.