In order to help others, first we must make ourselves into a proper tool for serving others by improving our own qualities.

If we do not have devotional trust, even if the Healing Buddha in person were standing in front of us, we would receive hardly any benefit.

Death can be a fearful time, because we are leaving behind our bodies and everything else that we know.

Devotional meditation is a means of awakening and expressing our own inner resources, which are essential for healing.

It is hard not to wake up with your customary worries, hopes, confusions, and ideas.

There are two crucial junctures of the day when meditation can be especially fruitful—when you are falling asleep and when you are waking up.

If we meditate with wholehearted openness, it can make a difference even in a weekend. But we have to keep going.

It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature

Amid our difficulties and struggles, it can be so helpful to have a focal point. 

In those dark days, all I had to guide and console me was the wisdom light of Buddhism in my heart.

Generally, we go through life with little awareness of what we are doing, let alone the peaceful and joyful nature of our lives. 

Jigme Gyalwe Nyugu recounts a pilgrimage he made in his youth with his teacher and Dharma brother, the First Dodrupchen Rinpoche

Even today, when I remember that experience from more than four decades ago, I feel joy and completeness. 

Some people are so fully open to the true nature of existence that they are peaceful no matter what the circumstances.

If we do not trust in the power of our meditation to heal, its strength and energy will be weak.

A common meditation long prescribed as part of monastic training in Tibet focuses on the impermanence of the body. 

When I talk about peace, people sometimes mistakenly think that this means detaching yourself from the stream of life.