CTR Quote of the Week

In my education, I was constantly criticized. I had been brought up strictly since infancy, from the age of eighteen months, so that I had

In order to work with others, you need training. If you want to become a good chauffeur, you first have to learn how to be

The attainment of enlightenment can only take place for the benefit of others rather than yourself. If you are doing it for yourself, you could

When you take the bodhisattva vow, you make certain promises and take on certain disciplines because of your surroundings. You commit yourself, not for yourself,

If people are determined to convert others into their mold, then they are attempting to reassure themselves by using the convert to relieve their doubt.

We are ready to leap onto the bodhisattva path, the path of putting others before ourselves, when we are ready to open to the joy

If we see the Tibetan Book of the Dead only from the point of view of what happens when we die, it becomes like the

The experiences  described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead are very much what happens in our daily living situation. They are not psychedelic experiences

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is based on the fundamental principle of birth and death recurring constantly in this life. One could refer to

If you can afford to be what you are, then that automatically means you could receive others as your guests. Because the ground your guests

Really, you can afford to be what you are! You may think that you’re alone and nobody’s with you. But that in itself is not

You don’t have to delay yourself between thinking and doing things. Rather, you need the fundamental understanding that, to start with, what you’re doing is

On the path of dharma, a person may be convinced that they have gained something which they actually haven’t gained. And if you talk to

Becoming a warrior means that we can look directly at ourselves, see the nature of our cowardly mind, and step out of it. We can

Warriorship is innate in human beings. Therefore, the way to become a warrior– or the warrior’s path — is to see who and what we

In Tibetan culture, the principle of warriorship stands on its own. By warriorship here, we are not particularly talking about the skills necessary to wage

We have created a world that is bittersweet. Things are amusing but, at the same time, not so amusing. Sometimes things seem terribly funny but,

The mind is our working basis for the practice of meditation and the development of awareness. Mind also includes what are known as emotions, which

Spirituality is based on mind. In Buddhism, mind is what distinguishes sentient beings from rocks or trees or bodies of water. That which possesses discriminating

People have difficulty beginning a spiritual practice because they put a lot of energy into looking for the best and easiest way to get into