Very short quotation

If you have enough belief in your practice, then everything is beautiful, peaceful, and quiet

Lamasang always wanted you beside him and close to him and not stretched too far away. This student-teacher commitment is called samaya. If one's samaya is not pure, there will be no results, even though one runs around the world millions of times.

Dharma will soon die if all the Sangha members are consumed by worldly activities

For example, one of the Tulkus from our monastery is always going somewhere, putting anything he finds in his pocket, so he possesses over 100 million of yuan in savings and properties, and he has the appearance of having very little desire because he has no cars, and does not use expensive things. He tells people that “I like the Chinese tradition that keeps as many goods as possible for generations.” He openly proclaims this to people. Likewise, everywhere, people are holding onto so much for themselves, never resting, always running around to acquire more.

All Buddhists have a responsibility to protect their own tradition in order to not hurt the essence of the Buddhist tradition

We need to be very careful; otherwise, the Dharma will be destroyed like it was in India. There, the Sangha went astray, and became useless, due to the absence of proper rules, lack of genuine knowledge, and poor conduct, to the extent that Buddhism died in India.

When their minds are attached to material society then almost nothing can really hold them back

There have been many sad stories about Sangha members' broken samaya with one another, causing disharmony and fighting in the sangha over money or properties. A monk involved in business who was living near us slipped a sedative to his business partner that put him to asleep.

If there is no vital Great Sangha ornamented by the three trainings, the monastery is only a tourist site or a business center

What makes a monastery a monastery? The physical representations of a monastery are only symbols.

All these great results come from the conduct of the Great Sangha who have been practicing little attachment and great contentment

The number of practitioners in the sangha has increased since Lamasang passed away. Also, we have built more retreat centers to practice Dzogpa Chenpo, the Great Perfection.

The person is becoming more important and famous – a lot of busy things arrive on the path – that is delusion

(“Bless me so that delusion on the path will cease!”) “Delusion” here means when one tries to be a very good Dharma practitioner.

When people do not have any faith in the Buddha’s Dharma then temples, statues, stupas have no meaning

It is important to understand that Buddhism is not the external thing. It is something internal.

Without correct understanding then one places too much belief in things, and it is not very good

And because when they have no belief in anything, that can be very dangerous. That can destroy the good seeds, many good tendencies.

Without understanding what is real Dharma, people often mix real Dharma with worldly dharmas

As I said earlier we need to understand what is real Dharma and what is not Dharma. Dharma is something beyond worldly dharmas. Worldly dharmas is not the real Dharma.

To meditate on what we have learned, [on] the essence of the teachings given by the Buddha Shakyamuni

Of course, as Dharma persons, it is important to study, to think and to meditate on all of these things. Only studying, only hearing is not enough, we have to use our own knowledge, our own wisdom to try to get the essence of that meaning [of teachings].

“Dharma politics” can destroy people’s devotion to Buddhist Dharma and destroy Buddha’s Dharma

Buddha Shakyamuni said Buddhist teaching is destroyed by the Dharma people. There’re are outer and inner Dharma people. The inner people are very close to the Buddha, to the Dharma; Those people are monks and nuns. And there are many other [kind of] Dharma practitioners.