Do not be angry do not seek revenge be calm and do your best in everything that you can because you’re great in what you do and the potential you have. Otherwise known as why my brother (younger than me, mind you) is better than yours.

Although I get annoyed quite a lot, there are only few people that I truly dislike. In that group of people fall those who are unable to rejoice in Kechara’s success. Here’s what I don’t understand – where is the competition?! And I don’t mean that in a bad way. What I mean is, if […]

If you offer up everything now, then you wouldn’t lose anything, but in fact gain everything… Freedom to ‘fly across the sky’ and anywhere you choose, like a Diamond Dakini, only comes from letting go of inner and outer possessions that aren’t ever permanent as we perceive mistakenly. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

If what people say to hurt you will not matter at the time of death, why should it matter now? – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Whenever we encounter a brick wall, focus on the space behind the wall. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

If the very nature of existence is problems, then why should we be surprised when problems arise? Understanding that, we will become calmer. When good things arise, we should be surprised and use that to rejoice and do more. And when negative things arise, we should not react in a way that creates more negative […]

The only virtue of collecting negative karma is that it can be purified. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Remain close to your guru like a cloth that wraps incense. The cloth absorbs the fragrance of the incense. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

(Taken with my iPhone) I have so many different thoughts going through my mind at the moment, most of them unfinished and not fully formed… You see, originally I was going to write about my likes and dislikes. I had just been given an incredible image of Yamantaka from Rinpoche and realised of all the […]

…that we need to hide behind a cause, an ideal, a project or institution to get self-worth, it’s only a temporary measure. We need to face the damages we have done to others. Own up. Confess openly. Truly apologise without repeat episodes. Heal the hurt. Stop creating more hurt immediately. Then we can hope to […]